Ketchum - "Education and Freedom at Minidoka: The Diary of Superintendent Arthur Kleinkopf"
Thu, Feb 26
|The Community Library
Learn about Friends of Minidoka’s new publication, "Education and Freedom at Minidoka: The Diary of Superintendent Arthur Kleinkopf." Published for the first time in its entirety, Education and Freedom at Minidoka presents a rare firsthand account of life at the Minidoka War Relocation Center.
Time & Location
Feb 26, 2026, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM MST
The Community Library, 415 Spruce Ave, Ketchum, ID 83340, USA
About the event
Learn about Friends of Minidoka’s new publication, Education and Freedom at Minidoka: The Diary of Superintendent Arthur Kleinkopf. Published for the first time in its entirety, Education and Freedom at Minidoka presents a rare firsthand account of life at the Minidoka War Relocation Center. Writing as the Supervisor of Student Teachers and Superintendent of Education, Kleinkopf documents the daily realities, contradictions, and moral tensions of working inside a World War II concentration camp.
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.
RSVP available shortly at comlib.org
Copies of Education and Freedom at Minidoka will be available for purchase.
This project is supported by Idaho Humanities Council, Jones Family Fund of the National Philanthropic Trust, Duane Minoru…
