Education and Freedom at Minidoka: The Diary of Superintendent Arthur Kleinkopf

Learn about Friends of Minidoka’s new publication, Education and Freedom at Minidoka: The Diary of Superintendent Arthur Kleinkopf, hosted and presented by Friends of Minidoka and Minidoka National Historic Site staff. Published for the first time in its entirety, Education and Freedom at Minidoka presents a rare firsthand account of life at the Minidoka War Relocation Center. Writing as the Supervisor of Student Teachers and Superintendent of Education, Kleinkopf documents the daily realities, contradictions, and moral tensions of working inside a World War II concentration camp. 

Education and Freedom at Minidoka is part of Friends of Minidoka’s project, Minidoka Memories: Stories that Connect and Heal which will collect oral histories from the Idaho community with ties to the historic Minidoka War Relocation Center and the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.

Copies of Education and Freedom at Minidoka will be available for purchase the night of the event.

This project is supported by Idaho Humanities Council, Jones Family Fund of the National Philanthropic Trust, Duane Minoru Yamamoto Memorial Fund with Friends of Minidoka, and Minidoka National Historic Site. In partnership with Twin Falls Public Library and Boise State University Albertsons Library Special Archives.