A Quaker missionary, Mr. Nicholson believes from the beginning that internment is wrong. He dedicates much of his time during World War II to driving boxes of books to internment camps for Japanese Americans incarcerated there. In addition, he helps those in the camps in other ways, such as by taking pets to outside vets and even delivering a loved one’s cremated remains.
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They Called Us Enemy
...are wrong and want to do something about them. Every month, a Quaker missionary named Herbert Nicholson brings books from a local bookstore to the camps. Though the camp director gives him...
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