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 20, 2015 | Board of Directors
Karen Ebel is a non-practicing attorney in New Hampshire and the daughter of former German American internee, Max Ebel. She is an active spokesperson for the German American community on the subject of World War II internment of persons of German ethnicities. She is a...
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...
by GAIC_Admin | Oct 18, 2015 | Real People, Resident Internee, US Resident Internees
On the 8th of November, 2002, my brother (Egon Scheibe Jr.) and I (Erika Scheibe Seus) went on a journey to Crystal City, Texas. This was a journey we needed to make. Our parents, Grete Scheibe, now 89, and our deceased father Egon Sr. were internees at a camp there...
