"Setsuko's Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration with Shirley Ann Higuchi"
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This episode is brought to you by the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy at The National WWII Museum.   On February 22, 2021, Dr. Rob Citino, the Museum’s Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian, had a conversation with Shirley Ann Higuchi, the Chair of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation.   Shirley’s American-born parents were children when they were incarcerated at the Heart Mountain War Relocation Center during World War II. Her mother inspired her to author “Setsuko's Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration.”
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