Worth noting…

First, an email from Josh Reppun, who wrote:

I am writing to invite you to the first Hawai’i public showing of the documentary, Most Likely to Succeed. I am one of several partners working to organize this film event at the Kaka’ako Agora space on October 2nd, Friday, at 7PM.

I was a teacher for 17 years; this is easily the best film on education, teaching, learning and schools I have ever seen.

To attend, click on the Eventbrite.

This brief description appears on the film’s website, where you can also view the trailer.

“Most Likely To Succeed is the best film ever done on the topic of school — both its past and its future. Free of whining and negativity, the film inspires its audiences with a sense of purpose and possibility, and is bringing school communities together in re-imagining what our students and teachers are capable of doing. After seeing this film, you’ll never look at school the same way again” (MLTS Film Website).

And the exhibit, “Unlikely Liberators,” is due to be on display at Kahala Mall from October 5-24, after completing a run at Honolulu’s Temple Emanuel.

The Nisei Veterans Legacy Center in Honolulu has partnered with Temple Emanu-El to host a photo exhibit entitled “Unlikely Liberators” about the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion’s unexpected encounter of Jewish prisoners from a Dachau subcamp in the closing days of World War II.

The exhibit will be on display from August 20 – September 6 at Temple Emanu-El in Nuuanu, weekdays from 9 am to 5 pm and weekends from 10 am to 5 pm. From October 5 – 24 it will be at the Kahala Mall. The photo exhibit was curated by military historian Eric Saul.

The 522nd FAB was one of the first Allied units that helped to liberate Jewish survivors of the Landsberg-Kaufering Dachau Death March and Dachau sub-camps, and the only Japanese American combat unit to fight on German soil. The irony of the 522nd’s encounter with the Dachau inmates was not lost on 522nd soldiers, many who had families incarcerated in War Relocation Authority camps throughout the US interior.

522nd veteran Joseph Ichiuji said, “Whereas the American camps were for the duration of the war, the German camps were for the extermination of the Jewish race. Yet, the reasons behind these acts are the same and that is the singling out of a race through acts of racial prejudice.”

The 522nd was activated on February 1, 1943 in Camp Shelby, Mississippi as part of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. It earned the reputation as one of the fastest, most efficient artillery units in the European Theater of operations in World War II.

For more information call the Nisei Veterans Legacy Center at (808) 971-1060.