On Feb. 22 at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, St Louis Chapter JACL will host a Day of Remembrance recognizing the impact that Executive Order 9066 had on Japanese and Japanese Americans in the U.S. during WWII. 

For members and guests, Washington University faculty Dr. Heidi Aronson Kolk and Dr. Kelley Van Dyke Murphy and students will discuss "Dislocated: Memory, Forgetting and the Landscapes of Japanese American Incarceration," an intensive class that traveled to Manzanar. Students who visited Manzanar created art exhibits that will be on display after the discussion.

The featured speaker will be Tracy Slater, author of "Together in Manzanar" about a Japanese Jewish family who fought to stay together during the war. Slater will discuss and answer questions about her book.

The chapter will provide members and their guests with a bento lunch.

In addition, the traveling art exhibit "Resilience: A Sansei Sense of Legacy" will be available to view through April 4. The exhibit includes an interactive component for visitors. Tags that attach to a wire fence are available to write personal messages about legacy.

This program is co-sponsored by The St. Louis Japanese American Citizens League, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum and the Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis.