Events
Breaking the Silence – Stories of Courage from Our Elders
- 7:00pm Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Four speakers talk about their lives during and after the Second World War.
Moderated by Linda Tamura of Willamette University, the conversation will focus on the role storytelling plays in the healing process after trauma.
The panelists will connect their experiences with the war and their later decisions to begin public speaking.
Our Speakers
Les and Eva Aigner, survived the Second World War and the Holocaust in Europe then lived through political unrest in Hungary before emigrating to America.
George Nakata lived in a Japanese American concentration camp in Idaho during World War II.
Taka Mizote spent the war years in farm labor camps in eastern Oregon.
This event is presented in partnership with OJMCHE and Oregon Nikkei Endowment with sponsorship fromPacific Northwest College of Art.
Voices of Hope and Action is an on-going annual event of intercultural conversation providing a platform to examine the roots of racism and hate while providing stories of hope and action.
Cost: Free to the Public, RSVP encouraged