By the summer of 1942, the forced removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast was more or less complete. This meant that the first religious holiday to be celebrated in camp was the summer ritual of #Obon, the Buddhist festival in which ancestors are honored. Despite the heat of the mid-summer season, Obon ceremonies and dances drew the biggest participation of any religious activity in the concentration camps, with families from both Buddhist and Christian backgrounds joining the dances and festivities. "Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration" explores the role that religious teachings, practices, and communities played in the WWII Japanese American experience. On view through November 27, 2022 at JANM #SutraAndBible Image: Japanese Americans in kimono participating in Obon dancing, Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming, 1943. Photo by Bill Manbo.