by GAIC_Admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Government & Organizations
Commemorating Crystal City: The Transnational Dimension of German American Internment Experiences was published on-line in the American Studies Journal, number 59, (2015). Author and historian Ingrid Gessner is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University...
by GAIC_Admin | Mar 26, 2016 | Documents, Letters, U.S. Special War Problems Division - Latin America
Report on traveling conditions of group of German citizens from Costa Rica, 22 Feb 1943: from folder 383.7, Camp Crystal City, NARA (exact location is being investigated) — Mention is made of “Negro members of the ship’s personnel” on page 2; that description was not...
by GAIC_Admin | Mar 2, 2016 | Legislative Highlights
Search for: Home Events History Internment Camps Real People Resources Contact To prevent possible future erosion of our civil liberties, the German American Internee Coalition believes the federal government must fully review and acknowledge its wartime civil...
by GAIC_Admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Events
In June 2015, Friends of the Texas Historical Commission received $16,000 from the National Park Service, which administers the Japanese Confinement Sites Grant Program. They will research and document a fading mural that was painted by an internee in the former...
by GAIC_Admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Events
In June 2015, the San Fernando Valley Japanese Community Center, Pacoima, California, and the Community Center’s Tuna Canyon Detention Station Coalition received $102,190. from the National Park Service, which administers grants from the Japanese Confinement...