The works of art are meant to honor those who spent time in the Tanforan internment camp. "Each piece is made up of around 5-to-11 pieces of glass," said Reiko Fuji, one of the artists who ...

the Tanforan Racetrack in San Bruno was converted into a temporary “Assembly Center” that eventually held some 8,000 Japanese Americans being rounded up and sent to internment camps during ...

Shimomura’s family was part of that. They were ordered into the Tanforan internment camp in May 1942, which was turned into a so-called “assembly center” after its years as a horse racetrack.

SAN BRUNO, Calif. (KRON) — An exhibit honoring the history of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II is now open at the Tanforan Mall in San Bruno. The free admission ...

Living Japanese American survivors of internment, and the descendants of those who aren’t, say they see alarming historical echoes in President Donald Trump’s plans to carry out mass deportations.

Her pilgrimage to the internment camp was part of a photo project by ... Japanese Americans were waiting to get transported ...

Tamaki’s parents – natives of the San Francisco Bay Area – were also in an internment camp. Among an album ... and forced to live at Tanforan Racetrack in San Bruno, California.

Internment camps sprung up throughout the United States ... “Citizen 13660,” which chronicled her time in the Tanforan Assembly Center and later in Topaz during World War II.

where hundreds took classes in still-life and architectural drawing within the internment camp at Tanforan. The teachers were interned, too. Both Hibi and Okubo taught classes there. Those classes ...

Her pilgrimage to the internment camp was part of a photo project by ... Japanese Americans were waiting to get transported to the Tanforan Assembly Center in San Bruno, before being taken to ...