Japanese Internment Camp Survivor To Speak at Northbrook Junior High

A Northbrook resident who was detained in a Japanese internment camp during World War II will speak to students at Northbrook Junior High on Thursday.

Toshi Mitsui was seven weeks short of high school graduation when she was re-located to the camp. While there, she continued her studies and received her diploma before moving to Chicago at the end of the war. She will address students at 10:45 a.m. at the Maple Avenue school.

Seventh grade social studies teachers Katrina Streips and Brenda Nowitzki said they are honored to be able to share this speaker’s story with students so they learn about the war’s impact from

“Having this speaker here is an amazing and rare opportunity to let students hear, first hand, from someone who was not only alive during World War II, but was also directly impacted by the decisions of the U.S. government at the time,” Streips said.

“Whenever possible, we like to expose students to primary sources, real people who have experiences and stories to share,” Nowitzki added. “In this way, through dialogue and interaction, history becomes alive for our students.”

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