Together in Manzanar : the true story of a Japanese Jewish family in an American concentration camp

Book 2025

"On a late March morning in the spring of 1942, Elaine Buchman Yoneda awoke to a series of terrible choices: between her family and freedom, her country and conscience, and her son and daughter. Born to Russian Jewish immigrants, Elaine was now married to a Japanese American man. But on this war-torn morning she was also a mother desperate to keep her young mixed-race son from being sent to Manzanar, the US concentration camp near Death Valley. T...

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