This documentary focuses on our local history of this tragic past and presents witnesses who might be your friends and/or neighbors. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, and, by May of the same year, nearly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most legal American citizens, were forced to leave their homes, their schools, their businesses and their lives behind and relocate to military-controlled concentration camps. After Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese Americans and immigrants who called the United States home were subjected to one of the largest violation of civil liberties in our nation’s history. Silent Sacrifice by director Jeff Aiello reveals the true story of one of the darkest chapters in America’s past: the relocation and incarceration of Japanese-American in 1942. Discussants: Saburo & Marion Masada (featured in the film).NOVEMBER 21-23 THANKSGIVING BREAK November 30: Silent Sacrifice (2017) on Fridays.Ĭlick here, select “ View All Giving Opportunities,” then click “ Other,” and type in “CineCulture.” Īll films screened on campus are free and open to the public. This screening is sponsored by Valley PBS. This documentary focuses on the Central Valley history of this tragic past and presents witnesses who might be your friends or neighbors. 19, 1942, and, by May, nearly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry - most of whom were legal American citizens - were forced to leave their homes, their schools, their businesses and their lives behind and relocate to military-controlled concentration camps. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb. After Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese-Americans and immigrants who called the United States home were subjected to one of the most substantial violations of civil liberties in our nation’s history. “ Silent Sacrifice ” reveals the true story of one of the darkest chapters in America’s past. 30, in the Peters Education Center Auditorium, west of the Save Mart Center inside the Student Recreation Center building.Ī discussion led by local film director Jeff Aiello, Elizabeth Laval with Valley PBS, sansei Kerry Yo Nakagawa and Japanese-American internment survivors Saburo and Marion Masada of Fresno will follow the screening. The locally produced PBS documentary film “Silent Sacrifice” about the relocation and incarceration of the Central Valley’s Japanese-Americans in 1942 will be screened at 5 p.m.
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