by GAIC_Admin | Oct 14, 2015 | Resources
OBTAINING AN INTERNEE’S RECORDS For many, the decision to request family internment records is a difficult one. You are not sure what you will get or if you will like what you read. The decision is an individual one, and the GAIC generally encourages document...
by GAIC_Admin | Oct 13, 2015 | Real People, U.S. Residents: a Japanese Family
Hisao Inouye’s Story While our website is about German American and Latin American residents interned during WW II, we are making an exception to post Hisao Inouye’s memoirs here. He was held in temporary facilities, a military prison, and various...
by GAIC_Admin | Oct 13, 2015 | Colombia, Latin American Resident Internees
The Welcker Family Story by Rosita Welcker My name is Rosita Welcker. I am German citizen and live in Bogota, Colombia. My father’s name was Friedrich Paul Welcker. He was born in Moenchengladbach, Germany on April 4, 1902. He moved to South America in 1931 and first...
by GAIC_Admin | Oct 13, 2015 | Brazil, Latin American Resident Internees
A brief history of Joachim Rehbock My paternal uncle Joachim F. Rehbock was born in Karlsruhe, Land of Baden-Wuertenberg, Germany on April 7, 1910. He was the third son (my father Arnold was the second) of Theodor Rehbock, professor in Hydraulic Engineering at the...
