ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 8月22日 05時26分

Photos by @andy_bardon /// Three images double exposed on film of @erinkaoyama at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming where her grandmother was sent in 1942. Erin spent this summer retracing her family history and revisiting some of the sites relevant to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II --> Words from Erin "My grandmother, Misa Hatakeyama, was 20 years old when she was sent to the prison camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. I have so many memories of Gra, as we called her, from growing up - sitting next to her on our couch while she knit a sweater for me or for one of my siblings, trying desperately to master using chopsticks while she patiently demonstrated, or running to her terrified after accidentally catching an eel while fishing in the pond by our house. But Gra never talked about her time at Heart Mountain. So what I know about that period of her life is what I’ve been able to glean from government records or the interpretive center that sits at the site of the former concentration camp, doing the work of memorializing the lives lived there during the just over three years that the camp was open. According to WRA records, Gra had completed nearly two years of college when the evacuation order went into effect. And from the registry at the Heart Mountain Wyoming Interpretive Center, I know that 20-year-old
Misa volunteered to take the very first train out to Heart Mountain from the Pomona Assembly Center on August 12, 1942. She went by herself, without her older brother or her parents, to help finish setting up the mess hall or maybe the hospital. And she left Heart Mountain, with her parents, on June 9, 1943. I spent over a month this summer working at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, to learn about who comes to visit and why and also to share my family's connection to the site. I found that my being there, representing an embodiment of the camp's legacy, sometimes helped to make the stories and the history more real for many visitors. It was a complex but beautiful experience, working everyday surrounded by the history that completely changed the course of my family’s lives. /// shot with @omoiyari_songf

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