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SAN BRUNO, California ( KPIX ) -- Satsuki Ina's earliest memories are of barbed wire and internment camps.

"We went from Tule Lake, my father went to Bismarck, North Dakota," Ina said, thumbing through a photo album.

Her family, like 125,000 other Japanese Americans, was hauled off to camps across the United States during World War II. Ina was born while her parents were already incarcerated, but the family wouldn't stay together for long.

After denouncing U.S. citizenship out of fear, her father was sent to several other camps around the country. The Inas would remain separated for more than four years.

"We were reunited in 1946. This is after the war. We're still in prison and reunited in Crystal City, Texas," Ina said.

Her family endured viol

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