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Yoshinaga-Herzig, Aiko


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    • Herzig, Aiko Yoshinaga-
    • Herzig-Yoshinaga, Aiko
    • Yoshinaga, Aiko Louise

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    • found: Rabbit in the moon, 1999:credits (Aiko Yoshinaga-Herzig)
    • found: NUCMC data from Japanese American National Museum for Paul T. Minerich papers, 1944-1998(Aiko Herzig; correspondent with Minerich regarding the DB Boys)
    • found: Discover Nikkei WWW, Aug. 25, 2009(Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, b. in 1925 in Los Angeles, CA, was 17 years old when she was incarcerated at Manzanar. Later, she was incarcerated at Jerome and Rohwer, Ark. Herzig-Yoshinaga later moved to New York where she became a community activist in the 1960s and was a member of Asian Americans for Action (AAA), the first Asian American political organization on the East Coast. Although she was not trained to be an archival researcher, Herzig-Yoshinaga, well into her 50s, decided to find out what historical documents about herself and her family might exist at the National Archives. Herzig-Yoshinaga and her husband, John "Jack" Herzig, pored over mountains of documents from the War Relocation Authority. The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) hired her as senior research associate for her knowledge of historical documents pertaining to the incarceration of Japanese Americans. Her discovery of the first edition of a "Final Report" written in 1943 by Gen. John DeWitt at the National Archives was the critical piece of evidence that the U.S. Government perjured itself before the Supreme Court in the 1944 cases Korematsu v. U.S., Hirabayashi v. U.S., and Yasui v. U.S. by presenting falsified evidence to the Court, by destroying evidence, and by withholding other vital information. The overturning of the convictions in the "Coram Nobis Cases" in 1984 was one of the keys that provided the legal basis Japanese Americans needed to seek redress and reparations for their wartime imprisonment)
    • found: New York times WWW site, viewed July 24, 2018(Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga; referred to in article as Mrs. Herzig Yoshinaga; b. Aiko Louise Yoshinaga, Aug. 5, 1924, Sacramento; moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1933; m. Jacob Miyazaki (div.); m. David Abe (div.); m. John Alois Herzig, 1978; d. July 18, Torrance, Calif., aged 93; Japanese-American whose tenacious archival research persuaded Congress to approve reparations for her fellow inmates of World War II internment camps and an official apology to them)

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    • 2000-02-23: new
    • 2018-07-24: revised

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