04-05-2024 21:23 via sltrib.com

This year’s pilgrimage to the Utah site where thousands of Japanese Americans were incarcerated had an artistic stopover

Lisa Hernandez came to Utah from Los Angeles with a copy of her mother’s birth certificate.“She was born in Topaz,” Hernandez said Friday. “I found her birth certificate from Topaz, and it says the parents’ color and race or whatever: Yellow.”Hernandez and her daughter, Yoshino Jasso — who was named after her great-grandmother — were among some 80 descendants of Japanese Americans who gathered Friday at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts as part of an an
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