Deadline to Register for 2023 Crystal City Pilgrimage Extended to September 8

Date: Aug. 22, 2023

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The deadline to register for this year's Crystal City Pilgrimage has been extended from August 25 to September 8, 2023 .


Please register by September 8 to reserve your spot for a worthwhile pilgrimage with former internees and their families, residents of Crystal City, and supportive allies.

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Crystal City Pilgrimage

October 26-29, 2023

San Antonio and Crystal City, Texas

This year’s Pilgrimage theme is “Reaching Across Barbed Wire Fences” . In addition to learning about the unique history and stories of survivors of the Crystal City Internment Camp, this year’s Pilgrimage will look at the legacy of solidarity and activism between the internees and the present day Crystal City community.


** We look forward to two Special Ceremonies to reveal:

* A street named after two Japanese Peruvian girls, Aiko Oyakawa and Sachiko Tanabe. The dear friends tragically drowned in the Crystal City Camp Pool in 1944. They were both 10 years old.

* A stunning Swimming Pool Memorial Monument will be unveiled at the Crystal City Camp site . Created by the award winning Art Director & Designer, Kazumu Julio Cesar Naganuma . Kaz’s work includes the San Francisco Japantown History Walk, the Alameda’s Tonarigumi Historic Japantown markers and the Enemy Alien Files traveling exhibit. Kaz is a Japanese Peruvian who was kidnapped with his family and interned in the WWII Crystal City Internment Camp.

Registration closes on August 25, 2023! Please share widely!

For more information, visit us at https://www.crystalcitypilgrimage.org/

Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CrystalCityPilgrimageCo

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