Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga Factory Internment
Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga played a crucial role in cataloging the important information about Japanese internment from the U.S. National archives, as well as helping provide evidence in the law cases to get Japanese Americans compensation for the time they spent in the internment camps she herself, was taken to Camp Manzanar when she was a senior in high school. It was also in the camp that she got married and gave birth to her first baby. She also spent time in two other camps, Jerome and Rohwer. When she got out of the camps she moved to NYC, after divorcing her husband. In the 1960's she began getting involved in social change by joining groups like Asian Americans for Action. She remarried in 1978, to John Herzig, and moved to Washington DC,
where she began to look into the information about wartime imprisonment in the national archives. It was during this period that her and her husband showed that there was no evidence that there were documents containing evidence of Japanese American espionage and sabotage. They then used those findings to support the lawsuit against the U.S. Government and their unjust treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
where she began to look into the information about wartime imprisonment in the national archives. It was during this period that her and her husband showed that there was no evidence that there were documents containing evidence of Japanese American espionage and sabotage. They then used those findings to support the lawsuit against the U.S. Government and their unjust treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II.