by GAIC_Admin | Jul 28, 2018 | Internee Laborers, Real People, US Resident Internees
Max Ebel, a German Immigrant’s Story Max Ebel, a U.S. resident German alien, was interned from September 1942 until June 1944. The reason for his internment was never explained to him. During the time he was interned, he was in five different internment...
by GAIC_Admin | Jun 28, 2018 | Internee Laborers
“The Hard Way to Become a Citizen” As told to grandson, Michael Murphy The reality of World War II came knocking on the door of the Herrmann’s home in Chicago on August 6, 1942. The United States had declared war in December of the prior year but the impact on certain...
by GAIC_Admin | Jul 12, 2016 | Real People, Resident Internee, US Resident Internees
My parents Emmy Elfriede and Eugen Banzhaf’s lives included two world wars, the severe inflation in Europe during the period between the wars, the depression in the United States, and the isolation and marginalization that came with interment during the...
by GAIC_Admin | Oct 21, 2015 | Real People, Resident Internee, US Resident Internees
“Untrue and Unjust Accusations”1 As told by John Heitmann, Ph.D — Son History and past memories, especially recent past memories, were rarely topics of family conversation when I was growing up during the 1950s and 1960s. World War II, in particular,...
by GAIC_Admin | Oct 21, 2015 | Real People, Resident Internee, US Resident Internees
The Neupert Family Story My father and mother, George Neupert and Emma Hoechner Neupert, were both born in Germany. My father and his sister emigrated to the United States in 1928, and my dad brought my mother over the following year. My parents were married in June,...
by GAIC_Admin | Oct 19, 2015 | Real People, Resident Internee, US Resident Internees
The Reseneder Family Internment Story My mother, Charlotte Reseneder Dimmling, her sister, Othilia “Tilly” Reseneder Busse and my grandparents were interned in Crystal City from 1942 until December 1945, seven months after the war in Europe ended. How they got there...
