2026 Day of Remembrance

Education and Freedom at Minidoka:
The Diary of Superintendent Arthur Kleinkopf

Dive into history with Friends of Minidoka’s latest publication, Education and Freedom at Minidoka: The Diary of Superintendent Arthur Kleinkopf.

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Learn about the daily realities, contradictions, and moral tensions of working inside a World War II concentration camp through the diary of Minidoka’s Superintendent of Education Arthur Kleinkopf and the launch of our oral history project.

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Presentation by Friends of Minidoka staff detailing the book, digging into the research, and answering questions about the history of Minidoka National Historic Site.​ See below for dates, times, and locations and to RSVP. Free public program.

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​Education and Freedom at Minidoka is part of FoM’s project Minidoka Memories: Stories that Connect and Heal which will collect oral histories from the Idaho community with ties to the historic Minidoka War Relocation Center and the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.

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