by GAIC_Admin | Jan 19, 2017 | Breaking News, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Special War Problems Division - Latin America
On July 15, 1942, the S.S. Drottningholm left Pier F, Jersey City, New Jersey bound for Gothenburg, Sweden, where internees were sent on to Germany and Italy, to be exchanged for U.S. citizens. The German American Internee Coalition recently received a number of...
by GAIC_Admin | Jan 19, 2017 | Audio, Breaking News, Multimedia, U.S. Special War Problems Division - Latin America
WWNO, a radio station in New Orleans, LA, featured the WWII history of Camp Algiers, across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, in a two part podcast. During the WWII years, this facility served as a receiving and detention station for Latin Americans, including...
by GAIC_Admin | Nov 7, 2016 | Breaking News, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Special War Problems Division - Latin America
Are you looking for a loved one you believe was interned in the United States? Thanks to Martin Huwart, with the help of independent researcher Satu Haase-Webb, we now have the 31 Oct 1942 Camp Kenedy census posted on our website. Most of the men held in this...
by GAIC_Admin | Nov 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
October 4, 2016—In the first lecture of a three-part series from the Office of Vince Ryan, Harris County Attorney, and the Harris County Law Library, nationally-recognized immigration law expert, Charles C. Foster, discussed the legal aspects of the immigrants and...
by GAIC_Admin | Nov 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
October 11, 2016—Former U.S. Ambassador Chase Untermeyer is joined by Special Assistant County Attorney Terence O’Rourke to discuss foreign policy aspects of the immigration issues facing detainees at the Crystal City camp and correlated case studies. This is lecture...
