Silent Scars of Healing Hands : Oral Histories of Japanese American Doctors in World War II Detention Camps

On February 19, 1942, by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, all Nikkei were subject to an indiscriminate and mass incarceration that affected more than 110,000 people. Within weeks, Issei and Nisei doctors found themselves vaccinating long lines of people in anticipation of their imminent removal from homes and businesses. Cast into temporary detention, these same physicians struggled to open clinics and treat patients in facilities ill prepared for the onslaught of families, pregnant, women, elderly, and toddlers. This book is their story — a collection of oral histories of Nisei physicians who directed health care behind barbed wires.