The Day of Remembrance, held on February 19th, remembers the over 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry that were incarcerated in concentration camps during World War II. This day is also a day to educate the public so that this does not recur in any community.

This year, the Japanese American Citizens’ League (JACL) will host a one-act play to honor of past internees and to remember this important part of history. “Within the Silence,” written by Ken Mochizuki and featuring New York actress Alison Hinto, follows a Japanese-American family as they are forced to sell or give away their possessions and then are interned in one of the U.S. internment camps that incarcerated citizens of Japanese heritage.

More on this play can be found at
http://www.livingvoices.org/wts/wts.html.