Godet’s Biblical Studies on the Old Testament (1875)

Struck by reckless paranoia and a disregard for justice, the United States arrested thousands of Japanese Americans, German immigrants and Italian immigrants the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Stripped of any legal rights, these thousands of immigrants were yanked from their homes, separated from their children and jailed in some forty-two internment camps. The pilgrims who came to America seeking freedom were suddenly sent to live in barbed-wired, makeshift camps. They committed no crimes. Although the Japanese were eventually given a formal apology, the dark secret of internment of thousands of Germans and Italians is unrecognized. Amid this upheaval is Doctor Magdalena Russo, an Italian doctor on a passenger ship caught in the conflict. She would spend the next three years in interment camps. Her struggle to get back to her homeland takes her on a voyage of confinement, loneliness, fear and sometimes love.