by GAIC_Admin | Dec 12, 2024 | Audio, Breaking News, Multimedia, Video & Radio Interviews
Two German reporters based in the U.S. recently had new reports about WWII German American internment on German radio. San Francisco-based Christoph Droesser’s report, “Unter Naziverdacht: Deutsche Internierte in den USA im Zweiten Weltkrieg,” was followed...
by GAIC_Admin | Nov 7, 2024 | Breaking News, Legislative Efforts, Related Legislation Archive
In mid-October, the Brennan Center at New York University School of Law issued The Alien Enemies Act: Unjust, Unnecessary, and Unconsititutional, a report decrying the continued existence of the Alien Enemies Act and calling for its repeal. Katherine Ebright, who...
by GAIC_Admin | Jun 18, 2024 | Breaking News
Drawing upon a long-suppressed episode in American history, when thousands of German immigrants were rounded up and interned following the attack on Pearl Harbor, In Our Midst follows one family, the Austs, as they struggle to stay together in a new America—one...
by GAIC_Admin | Apr 5, 2024 | Authors and Historians, Featured, Memorials & Recognition
Art Jacobs, former internee, U.S. Air Force Major, and educator at Arizona State University, died November 20, 2023, at the age of 90, in Tempe, Arizona. Art was the one of the first former internees to educate the public about internment policies with a website, a...
by GAIC_Admin | Mar 22, 2024 | Latin American Resident Internees, Peru, Real People
Tracking the Lorenz Family Through Franklin Roosevelt’s Internment by Karl Malek Early in 1942, while World War II was ravaging the globe, my great-grandfather, my great-grandmother, my grandfather, and my great-aunt were being detained by the Peruvian government in...
