Quiet Passages
Charcoal, ink on paper
18”x24”
Charcoal, ink on paper
18”x24”
At just 20 months old, Kazumu Julio Cesar Naganuma was taken from his home in Peru with his family under U.S. government orders. As part of a secret WWII program called “Quiet Passages,” they were among thousands of Japanese Latin Americans forcibly brought to the U.S. for prisoner exchange.
Kazumu’s sister kept asking for milk for him during the long, harsh voyage, but no one responded. No one on board understood Spanish or Japanese.
Photo permission from the Naganuma Family
The family spent over three years in the Crystal City internment camp in Texas before resettling in San Francisco with the help of Rev. Fukuda and attorney Wayne Collins.