This first episode of “beyond generations” is about an owner of a hotel in Seattle’s International District where you can see first-hand some of the belongings that Japanese American people in Seattle left when they were uprooted and sent to the wartime incarceration camps during the World War II. She turned the hotel into a living museum so that people can learn about the internment. She did not go through the camp experience herself, or is not a Japanese American. But she devoted herself to it. In this episode, you will find out why. Your host, Monica, will take you on a journey of discovery of what happened to the Seattle community that she cares about.

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Special thanks to Jan Johnson, the owner of the Panama Hotel and Suzan Hori, a daughter of the former owner of the Hotel.

Music by ZakharValaha from Pixabay

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References:

The Panama Hotel

https://www.panamahotelseattle.net/

The Panama Hotel by National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior

https://www.nps.gov/places/panama-hotel.htm

The Panama Hotel by National Trust for Historic Preservation

https://savingplaces.org/collections/national-treasures-collection#.Yzcl6HaZM2w

https://savingplaces.org/places/panama-hotel#.YzclaXaZM2w

https://savingplaces.org/stories/introducing-the-panama-hotel-a-bittersweet-symbol-of-hope/#.Yzc2GHaZM2x

Discover the History of WWII Incarceration by Densho

https://densho.org/learn/introduction/

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