On Saturday, February 8, the Seabrook Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League and the Seabrook Educational & Cultural Center Museum will observe the 83rd Anniversary of Executive Order 9066. Signed on February 19, 1942, by President Franklin Roosevelt, E.O. 9066 authorized our government to incarcerate Americans simply because they looked like the enemy. More than 125,000 American citizens and immigrants of Japanese ancestry were forced to give up their homes, businesses, and way of life.
More than 2,500 of those of Japanese ancestry incarcerated at U.S. internment camps and DOJ camps, which included Japanese-Peruvians, relocated to Seabrook, NJ for employment and a new beginning.
The 83rd Anniversary of E.O. 9066 will be observed with a special screening of the historical documentary The Paradox of Seabrook Farms by Dutch Estonian filmmaker Helga Merits. The film premiered March 2024 at the Levoy Theatre, Millville, to a sold out audience of 700, with a repeat screening with an audience of 600. Screenings at Rowan University and in Bryn Mawr, PA, followed.
Now it will be shown in Seabrook at Cumberland Regional High School (90 Silver Lake Rd., Bridgeton) at 1 p.m. on Saturday, February 8. Doors open at 12 noon.
Call/Text: 856-649-8133 for tickets, which are also available at the door: $10/adults and $5/students.
