Camp Days: 1942-1945, Childhood Memories of Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz

“This collection of paintings by the gifted artist, Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz, is her memoir in art of her girlhood years imprisoned in a camp called Poston in the desolation of a desert in Arizona... Chizuko's art is a powerful narrative of a shameful event in our history. It is also an evocative personal chronicle of the survival of a loving and resilient family.”

-- George Takei

Chiz, who recently retired from teaching in Southern California, was nine-years old when she and her family were uprooted from their home and incarcerated at Poston, Arizona. Haunted by her past, she began to reconstruct her childhood camp experience through interviews with older siblings, relatives, and friends. She expressed her feelings and insights in a series of vivid watercolors. In 2004, she published "Camp Days 1942-1945," a best-selling book now available at the Museum Store.