A new plaque tells the story of the hundreds of Japanese, German and Italian immigrants who were incarcerated during World War II on the site that is now Travel Town.
, which supports park projects, and was created with the help of L.A. recreation and parks officials, the Travel Town Museum Foundation, the Tuna Canyon Detention Station Coalition, the Japanese American National Museum and the Los Angeles Breakfast Club., whose district includes Griffith Park, expressed hope that “a problematic past can still give way to a more just, educated, and equitable future.
Sochi Kadota worked as a day laborer before eventually buying a 10-acre vegetable farm. After he was taken away, his wife and 10 children had to sell the farm and were soon incarcerated themselves at Gila River near Phoenix.“This was a part of our history that was never talked about, because it elicits such shame and pain,” Masaoka said. “But it’s a story that needs to be told so it can never happen again.”Forced to live in horse stalls.
Kadota had a hard time rebuilding his life, Masaoka said. He worked as a janitor and then became a homemaker while his wife worked at the Fuller Brush Co. He died in 1968 at age 88. Sigrid Toye was 3 years old when her father, a German immigrant, was arrested on Dec. 7, 1941, after FBI agents searched their home near Griffith Park.Eugen Banzhaf stayed at Terminal Island for a few weeks before being moved to Tuna Canyon, Griffith Park and then a prison camp in Stringtown, Okla.
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