Exhibit Details

 We are pleased to announce our current exhibit featuring objects from the Sa sa e Project in the NJAHS Gallery opening on Friday, May 7, 2010 and on view through Friday, December 31, 2010. The Gallery is located at 1684 Post St. (between Webster and Laguna) in San Francisco Japantown. To get the event infomation, click here. Funding for this project was provided by a grant from the California State Library through the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program.

Since late 2009, the National Japanese American Historical Society, Inc. (NJAHS) has worked in collaboration with Japanese American communities and Japanese American Citizens League Chapters throughout the Bay Area on a special project documenting, collecting, and cataloguing various arts & crafts, historic artifacts, and objects created in the internment camps during WWII.

SEE THE OBJECTS! (click here)

We have received an enormous response and enthusiastic participation, namely from the descendents – children, grandchildren – of Japanese American internees living in northern Californian communities including Penryn, Salinas, and San Francisco. Read on...