#1526: Paul Kitagaki’s “Behind Barbed Wire”

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Dec 20 2019 | 00:30:00

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Show Notes

After the start of World War II, more than 110 thousand Japanese-Americans were rounded up and taken to desolate detention camps. For most of us this is a dark stain on American history. For Paul Kitagaki, it’s personal. For more than a decade he has been tracking down and photographing survivors of the camps and […]

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