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...
by GAIC_Admin | May 5, 2019 | Breaking News
Karin Harten Schramm, who was brought to the United States with her German Ecuadorian family 1944, has generously allowed us to post her family’s WWII experiences, largely compiled from contemporaneous letters and diaries Gertrud Harten, her mother, kept. There...
by GAIC_Admin | May 4, 2019 | Ecuador, Latin American Resident Internees
By Gertrud Harten – 1939 to 1948, and Karin Harten Schramm – 2019 My parents were both from Hamburg, Germany. My father, Wolfgang Harten, born in 1907, finished his apprenticeship in an import/export company in 1927. At that time Germany was suffering under the...
by GAIC_Admin | Mar 1, 2019 | Breaking News, Multimedia, Video
Lars Hemingstam, author and founder of a website about the ships of the Swedish American Line, discusses the exchange voyages during World War 2 between the Allies and Axis Powers using the Swedish American Line’s chartered ocean liners Gripsholm and...
