Japanese-Americans marked the 70th anniversary of their World War II internment Saturday with a call to action and the launch of a new website designed to share stories with a wider audience.

The event took place a day before the anniversary of the 1942 presidential order that led to the forced removal of around 120,000 Japanese-Americans from the West Coast to camps in remote parts of the country.

In his keynote speech at the event, Robin Toma, executive director of the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission, drew parallels between the Feb. 19, 1942, order by Franklin D. Roosevelt and a law signed by President Barack Obama last December.