Biography
Sam Mihara survived the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans associated with Heart Mountain and later became an educator about that history. Pacific Citizen reports his family lost its San Francisco home, his grandfather died in a camp and his father lost his sight. No relative’s death or medical event is assigned to Sam personally. His personal detention endpoints are not established.
Sam Mihara survived the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans associated with Heart Mountain and later became an educator about that history. Pacific Citizen reports his family lost its San Francisco home, his grandfather died in a camp and his father lost his sight. No relative’s death or medical event is assigned to Sam personally. His personal detention endpoints are not established. Actual camp confinement explicitly identified by the source; individual admission, release and total duration remain unknown. Source names Heart Mountain, Wyoming.
