Georgia Hunter’s debut historical novel “We Were the Lucky Ones” tells the true story of her family’s Holocaust survival. The book’s chapters are written in the voices of these ancestors who by the end of the war had scattered to […]
Booktalk: Thriller Writer Joseph Kanon and “Leaving Berlin”
Author of seven post-World War II thrillers, Joe Kanon takes us back to Berlin, a once grand city now 80% destroyed in the late 1940s. In this book espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life. This program […]
Lest We Forget: The Mission
“I feel I’ve done what I promised to do.” 93 year old Frederic Arnold, a sculptor who lives in Longmont, is the sole survivor of a group of fighter pilots who served together in Europe in World War II. 12 […]
Amache Survivors Preserve History through Annual Pilgrimage
GRANADA, CO-Amache internment camp opened August 27, 1942 following the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. One hundred twenty-six thousand Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were US citizens were forced into camps during World War II. […]
Day of Remembrance Held to Commemorate Those Held in Local World War II Concentration Camps
“Don’t go near the fence,” is what many Japanese and Japanese-Americans who grew up during and shortly after World War II, remember from their childhoods. Their parents couldn’t impress upon their children enough to stay away from the border […]
Day of Remembrance 2015
“We’re very, very diligent to these issues of race in America.” Gil Asakawa, a board member with the Mile High Japanese American Citizens League says one of the legacies of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II is […]