Speaker feature

After the showing of the documentary film "Then They Came for Us", an older woman with a warm and welcoming demeanor stood up and introduced herself.  Her name is Joy Sakai and opened up to share a great deal of her experience from her youth of growing up in and out of the Japanese internment camps.

Though the film stated the harsh reality of the living conditions of the many Japanese who were confined during the prohibition such as "frequent dust storms", and "families being assigned to horse stables", Sakai shared a different take from her experience. 

"I was born on VJ day of August 14, 1945 in Poston, Arizona, for those who don't know VJ day, it was when Japan surrendered in World War II".  This day held the utmost significance to the events of internment camps in the US.

Sakai said "I guess I was one of the lucky ones", and then stated how shortly after being born in the internment camps with her brothers and father passing away and mother contracted of clinical depression, she was taken by adoption by Henry and Grace of the Suezaki family in which they lived in Campbell, California.

She also added that "The family taught me respect, to be a good citizen". so that I could go to school and have my own career".  Sakai was forever grateful for their choice to adopt her for the better to now to share these experiences with others.

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