El Dorado County Library

Are you a history buff? Do you consider yourself a lifelong learner? Then join us at the Placerville Library, 345 Fair Lane, on Friday, May 15 at 3:00 pm as we welcome historian Etsuko Haegele for a presentation on her family’s internment camp experiences during WWII.

Etsuko explains, “It was through searching for my mother’s side of the family tree that I discovered what the family went through during WWII.” She will be sharing a DVD of her family’s life prior to World War II and of the incarceration in the camps during the war as well as sharing stories from a friend who lived in Oahu and family who lived in Japan. “This may be a small unit of history which we all may have missed in high school.”

This presentation is part of One Book, One Coast – the largest West Coast book club uniting more than 140 libraries across California, Oregon, and Washington as they celebrate literacy, learning, and community by featuring George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy.”