Why did Leo Frumkin, pictured above, show up to school one day
to find all of his Japanese American friends suddenly missing?
They had moved to take advantage of a public housing project specifically for
Japanese Americans that had just opened in another part of Los Angeles
Almost all Japanese American families migrated en masee to Japan during World
War II
All of them had been promoted early to the next grade
The U.S. government interned Japanese Americans living on the West Coast
during World War II
