The historic Panama Hotel and Tea Room in Seattle’s International District became a place for Japanese Americans to store their belongings in the wake of WWII’s Executive Order 9066 which decreed the resettlement of Americans of Japanese descent to government-sponsored internment camps.
Today, many of those belongings still reside in the basement of the hotel, unclaimed by the original owners. What’s left is a ghostly time capsule of a slow-motion tragedy.
Nominated for a 2023 Northwest Regional Emmy in the Historical/Cultural - Short Form Content category.