by GAIC_Admin | Sep 12, 2019 | Breaking News, Crystal City - Texas
Joseph O’Rourke, who commanded the Crystal City, TX Family Internment Camp, wrote this “Historical Narrative of the Crystal City Internment Camp” in 1945, as the facility was slowly being emptied. The report detailed its establishment, construction,...
by GAIC_Admin | Aug 31, 2019 | Breaking News
Two additional inspection reports on the Crystal City, TX Family Internment Camp, and several lists of internees transferred there during the first days of the camp are now available for viewing. The transfer lists include the first internees in the camp in December...
by GAIC_Admin | Aug 14, 2019 | Breaking News, Multimedia, Video
Simon and Schuster Books posted this video in 2015, with Jan Jarboe Russell, author of The Train to Crystal City, briefly presenting five facts about Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the policy that led to the exchange of thousands of U.S. and Latin American civilians of...
by GAIC_Admin | Aug 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
[pexblogposts pex_attr_title=”” pex_attr_cat=”283″ pex_attr_layout=”columns” pex_attr_number=”1″ pex_attr_columns=”2″][/pexblogposts] The German American Internee Coalition formed in 2005 to educate the...
by GAIC_Admin | Jun 2, 2019 | Breaking News
On February 15, 1944, the M.S. Gripsholm sailed from the New York harbor to Lisbon, Portugal, with 1,117 civilians of German descent, including children, scheduled to be exchanged for persons held in Germany. Most had been interned in Texas; many were from...
