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The Livermore Public Library is set to host an honest look at life as a Japanese American during World War II with a presentation next week by one of the increasingly fewer remaining survivors of the U.S. internment camps of the era.
Yukio Shimomura, an American of Japanese descent born in San Francisco, was a young boy when the U.S. entered the war after the attacks on Pearl Harbor — “and his life, along with family’s, was changed,” according to library officials.
“Through an extensive presentation, Shimomura will share his family’s experience before and during WWII, especially how Executive Order 9066 forcibly relocated them into incarceration camps,” library officials said. “Shimomura will also explore how incarceration impacted his family generationally inside and outside the camps.”
“My Two and a Half Years Behind Barbed Wire in the U.S. During WWII” featuring Shimomura is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. next Tuesday (June 11) in the Storytime Room at the Civic Center Library on South Livermore Avenue.
The free event is part of the library’s “Authors & Arts” series, which is sponsored by the Friends of the Public Library. For more information, go to library.livermoreca.gov.
