Children of WWII

Reiko Nagumo explains how she and her family learned that America was at war with Japan, how this changed their lives, and how it impacted her friendship with Mary Frances. Reiko tells Ann Curry why she wishes to find Mary again.

Peter Engler describes the ghetto for stateless refugees in Shanghai and tells Ann Curry about Fritz Adler, his father’s business partner and Peter’s confidante. Peter also explains how much Fritz’s wife Stella meant to him and that they had a baby daughter who he would dearly love to find again.

Reiko Nagumo returns to the Wyoming internment camp where she and her family were incarcerated during the war, recalling the conditions they lived in and how she felt homesick for her life in California.

Peter Engler meets Linda Levi, Director of Global Archives at the American Joint Jewish Distribution Committee in New York to continue his search for Margaret Adler, the daughter of his friends Fritz and Stella who he met in the Shanghai ghetto.

Join Ann Curry for the dramatic reunions of people separated by WWII. A Japanese-American woman sent to an internment camp as a child hopes to find a friend, and a survivor from a Jewish ghetto searches for the child of the couple who befriended him.