Those Who Helped Us: Assisting Japanese Americans During the War
12023-04-25T18:35:41+00:00Jessica Bocinskia602570e86f7a6936e40ab07e0fddca6eccf4e9b1562By Ken Mochizuki and Kiku Hughesplain2023-04-25T19:44:55+00:00Fiona Bumgarner649808186eb775a94c17328c7e78608b1777fc57
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1media/Screenshot 2023-04-25 145426.jpg2023-04-25T19:29:40+00:00Those Who Helped Us by Ken Mochizuki and Kiku Hughes4Read a portion of Those Who Helped Usimage_header2023-04-25T21:55:27+00:00Basketball-loving Sumiko Tanaka, then 11, narrates this graphic novel about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Through her eyes, we watch as her family is forced from their home and subjected to indiscriminate racism as they are shipped off to the concentration camp called Minidoka in Idaho. But Sumiko and her 17-year-old sister Yuri also see acts of charity and solidarity from their non-Japanese neighbors and friends in the Seattle area that make them hopeful for the future. As the young girls struggle with the horrors of being imprisoned in the dusty desert, they also find solace in the fact that some people chose to help. This story highlights the actual actions and experiences of those neighbors and friends.
