Yuki Llewellyn, a child of Manzanar whose image touched America, dies at 80
by Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times
Jul 18, 2020
3 minutes
Sitting on a suitcase in Union Station, waiting to be hauled off to Manzanar with her mom, Yuki Okinaga Hayakawa was the very picture of uncertainty.
The look on the 2-year-old's face is difficult to read, though dread comes to mind. She clutches a tiny purse in one hand, and a half-eaten apple in the other. Ahead were years behind barbed wire fencing in the Owens Valley along with thousands of other people of Japanese descent as America was pulled into World War II.
The photograph is
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