Marie Masumoto
@mmasumotoMarie Masumoto es una investigadora independiente de la historia japonesa americana y voluntaria del Centro Nacional de Recursos Hirasaki en el Museo Nacional Japonés Americano. Marie también es voluntaria para el Sitio Histórico Nacional de Manzanar y excavó ocho jardines arqueológicos construidos durante el encarcelamiento de japoneses estadounidenses durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y es voluntaria para la Peregrinación anual de Manzanar realizando recorridos por los jardines. Ha contribuido con tres artículos sobre centros de detención a la Enciclopedia Densho en línea.
Actualizado en febrero de 2014
Historias de Este Autor
Starting a New Life
2 de abril de 2014 • Marie Masumoto
My mother, Kinuko Saito, was holding me in her arms as we left Japan. I was six months old when we embarked on a military ship headed for Los Angeles via Seattle. Without knowing any English, my mother left her family and friends to start a new life in the United States. We had arrangements to stay with my father’s relatives whom she had never met before. We patiently stayed and waited for my father to arrive; he was a …
Digging Into the Past: A volunteer's experience at Manzanar
4 de julio de 2008 • Marie Masumoto
On my birthday, May 6, 2007, I got an e-mail from my friend Park Ranger Carrie Andresen-Strawn at the Manzanar National Historic Site Interpretive Center. She wanted to know if I would like to volunteer on an excavation of two gardens at Blocks 9 and 10. These two blocks housed most of the Terminal Islanders who were forced to leave their homes, businesses and give up their livelihood and their successful occupations as fishermen. A majority of the population were …
