article_snippet.sent: Protests by Japanese-American groups and Star Trek George Takei have led the Rago Auction House to cancel a sale of 450 photos and artifacts from World War II internment campsWorld War II .
article_snippet.sent: Thousands of Japanese-Americans, groups and sympathizers posted Thousands of Japanese-Americans, groups and sympathizers opposition to a sale of 450 photos and artifacts from World War II internment campsthe Rago Auction House, the San Jose Mercury News reported Thursday.
article_snippet.sent: Stopped a sale of 450 photos and artifacts from World War II internment camps:
article_snippet.sent: Star Trek actor George Takei helped halt the action of 450 photos and artifacts from World War II Japanese-American internment camps .
article_snippet.sent: The auction was halted thanks, in part, to the efforts of Takei, who lived in an internment camps in Arkansas as a child. '
article_snippet.sent: Takei and a group called the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation helped stop the sale of items like these panels carved in the internment camps .
article_snippet.sent: Not just art for sale: Families forced into the internment camps during WWII were not allowed to take photos and the officials photographers were barred from snapping the barbed wire and guard towers that became a part of these families' lives .
highlights_snippet.sent: The Star Trek star helped pressure a New Jersey auction house to cancel a sale of 450 photos and artifacts from World War II internment camps .