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Mini-Episode 35: Kindness and Internment Camps
🕑 Added 2025-05-10 17:29:02 +0000 UTCIn response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government passed Executive Order 9066. This executive order combined with war-time hysteria and racism led to Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast, from toddlers to elders, to be rounded up and sent to internment camps. In this awful context, a young Mexican-American man named Ralph Lazo offered an incredible example of kindness.
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History on Fire
Thank you for listening and for sharing!
Kristian Castaneda
I listened to you on Fighting Matters and I think we’re similar in that it’s easy to cry. This episode definitely got me. So cool to see another Mexican American do something so selfless. I live in Canada now and have heard from the descendants of interned Japanese here. Really interesting to get something you would normally never come across, thank you Danielle!
History on Fire
thank you!
Adam Cloutier
Very cool story. Thanks for sharing a story that really deserves to be told.
