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Angel Island’s Hidden History: WWII Detention of “Enemy Aliens”

A portrait of a Japanese family in the early 1940s. Father is standing in a three-piece, Western style suit and tie. Mother in Japanese kimono sits with toddler in a robe on her lap. Two boys both in suits and ties stand on either side of and a smaller boy in shorts and flat cap.
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Free    |  Oct 18, 2025  |  1:00PM - 2:30PM
Japanese American National Museum
100 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles 90012
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JANM and the Nikkei Genealogical Society present an in-depth guide to Angel Island’s hidden history during World War II. Historian and genealogist Grant Din, co-curator of the exhibit Taken From Their Families, will illuminate the experiences of nearly 700 Japanese immigrants temporarily detained at Angel Island’s Fort McDowell before transfer to other camps. As a former director of Community Resources for the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation and a forty-year veteran in genealogical research, Din offers deep knowledge of the immigration hub and its overlooked role as a World War II detention center.

This program is presented in partnership with the Nikkei Genealogical Society.

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