{"id":6110,"date":"2023-04-16T08:54:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T15:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/library\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=6110"},"modified":"2023-06-05T08:52:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T15:52:22","slug":"hirahara-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/library\/news\/hirahara-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Detained: Photographs from the George and Frank C. Hirahara Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JFK Lobby | April 17-28, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This exhibit features sixteen photographs taken by George and Frank Hirahara during their detainment at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Park County, Wyoming. The Hiraharas were a Japanese American family living in Yakima at the outset of World War II and were subject to mass removal along with over 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>Their photograph collection, consisting of over 2000 images, provides a perspective of life in the Japanese American incarceration camps from the perspective of one detained family.<\/p>\n<p>The photographs are on loan from <a href=\"https:\/\/content.libraries.wsu.edu\/digital\/collection\/hiraharag\">Washington State University.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Produced in coordination with a campus panel discussion:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Lens of Persecution: Filmed Experiences of Oppression and Resilience in the Pacific Northwest and in Nazi-Occupied Europe during WWII<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>April 20 | 2 p.m. &#8211; 3:30 pm\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>(The event is free, but registration is required. For more information,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/online-calendar\/event\/mchsileneawa0423\"> please visit the website<\/a>.)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact University Archivist Steven Bingo, <a href=\"mailto:sbingo@ewu.edu\">sbingo@ewu.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JFK Lobby | April 17-28, 2023 This exhibit features sixteen photographs taken by George and Frank Hirahara during their detainment at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Park County, Wyoming. The Hiraharas were a Japanese American family living in Yakima at the outset of World War II and were subject to mass removal along with<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/library\/news\/hirahara-exhibit\/\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":6112,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-6110","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-past-events","stories_tags-archival-display","stories_tags-library"],"acf":{"subheading":"An Archival Exhibit at JFK","featured_image_format":"cover","display_byline":false,"display_date_published":false,"featured_video":"","Links":false,"Resources":false,"page_hide_sidebar":false,"page_enable_page_nav":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/6110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/6110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6166,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/6110\/revisions\/6166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}