Silent Scars of Healing Hands

Silent Scars of Healing Hands: Oral Histories of Japanese American Doctors in World War II Detention Camps By Naomi Hirahara and Gwenn M. Jensen.  Within the confines of detention centers in their own country, Japanese Americans who practiced medicine worked under the most dire of conditions during World War II. Collected by a special team organized by the Japanese American Medical Association, these collected oral histories tell the stories of men and women who depended on ingenuity and compassion to care for their patients in remote makeshift hospitals. In this updated edition, the lives of Japanese American medical professionals who endured the wound of a nation’s betrayal reveal the triumph of community and care amid hardship.  Paper: 220 pp.   Available in October.