B.C. internment camp brought to life in NFB project with writer Joy Kogawa
Joy Kogawa is giddy about the “miracle” of technology allowing people to learn about Canada’s racist past that forced thousands of citizens like her out of their homes and into internment camps during the Second World War.
“It’s wonderful to me that the story that I lived through can be part of this generation’s knowledge,” the writer and poet says from her home in Toronto.
Kogawa, 83, chronicled her family’s internment experience in the B.C. Inter
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