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APPLY NOW – 2025 Arnold Maeda Manzanar Pilgrimage Grant
Applications DUE January 3, 2025

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Past Recipients of the Annual Arnold Maeda Manzanar Pilgrimage Grant

Click on the names below to read their winning essays.
Ryan Horio, 2023.
Terumi Tanisha Garcia, 2022
Charlene Tonai Din, 2022
Leslie Aguilar, 2021

Click here to go to the VJAMM Virtual Commemoration Page


The Venice Japanese American Memorial Monument (VJAMM) sits on the northwest corner of Venice and Lincoln Boulevards. The 9′ 6″ tall solid black granite obelisk marks the spot where some 1,000 persons of Japanese ancestry from Venice, Santa Monica, and Malibu lined up with only what they could carry in April, 1942. Buses transported them directly to Manzanar.

View VJAMM Dedication Ceremony Program

View Photos with VJAMM

View video clips of 4/ 27/17 VJAMM Dedication Ceremony

 

Click on image to read monument text.