The Crystal City Pilgrimage promotes dialogue, relationship building and education about the largest multi-national immigrant family concentration camp during World War II
We are asking for your support to cover expenses for programming, educational materials and ensuring that those formerly incarcerated can participate.
The Crystal City Pilgrimage is being organized October 31 - November 3, 2019 by former internees, family members and community volunteers across the country as a call to remember this dark period during WWII and to stop repeating the history of racist, anti-immigrant, and human rights violations.
The Pilgrimage will highlight the little-known wartime rendition of over 2,200 immigrant residents and citizens of Japanese ancestry from thirteen Latin American countries, including their kidnapping, internment and use as hostages in prisoner exchanges for US citizens in Asian war zones and their ongoing struggle for government accountability and redress.
You can make your tax-deductible donation online or send a check payable to Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, with “Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee” in the memo line, to 1222 Preservation Park Way, Oakland, CA 94612. Philanthropic Ventures Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity (tax ID 94-3136771) that serves as the fiscal depository for the Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee.