Topaz Stories: After the War

The Berkeley Historical Society’s “Here Lived” map reveals a thriving Japanese American community in Berkeley before World War II. The attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and the issuance of Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942, led to the forced removal of the entire population of Japanese Americans in Berkeley, most to a concentration camp in Topaz, UT. A long-established community was obliterated.

When the war ended in 1945, where did Japanese Americans go?

Join Ruth Sasaki, editor of the Topaz Stories Project, and Topaz survivors and descendants Kazuko Iwahashi, Joseph Nishimura, Kenneth Yamashita, Gay Kaplan and Sandra Yagi, who will share stories of what happened to their families “After the War.”

Host or Publisher Berkeley Historical Society & Museum