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Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Issues Day of Remembrance Letter
On February 4, 2009, the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) issued its annual Day of Remembrance letter to Day of Remembrance participants. The concluding paragraph of the letter states: It has been over two decades since the enactment of the Civil...
National Day of Rememberance
Home Events History Internment Camps Real People Resources ContactThe first federal legislation to pass which specifically mentioned the internment of German Americans and Latin Americans was introduced by Rep. Mike Honda as House Resolution 56. It passed in March...
Las Posesiones
Alvarado Quesada, Carlos. Las Posesiones. San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Uruk, April 2012. (a novel) Las Posesiones takes place at a time following the entry of the United States in World War II, when governments of several Latin American countries, including Costa...
Costa Rica en la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945)
Calvo Gamboa, Carlos. Costa Rica en la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Universidad Estatal A Distancia, 1985. Find it online
Enemies: WW II Alien Internment
Christgau, John. Enemies: WW II Alien Internment. University of Nebraska Press, October 2009 (republication). Read a review. John Christgau's Website Buy Online
Where Clouds Meet the Water
Contag, Kimberly and James Grabowska. Where Clouds Meet the Water. Inkwater Press, 2004. Where the Clouds Meet the Water follows the historical journey of the German Ecuadorian widower, Ernst Contag, and his four young children from their home in the South American...
Una Storia Segreta: the Secret history of Italian American Evacuation and Internment during World War II
DiStasi, Lawrence, ed. Una Storia Segreta: the Secret history of Italian American Evacuation and Internment during World War II. Heyday Books, Berkeley, California, 2001. It is little known that Italian Americans had been interned, evacuated and otherwise restricted...
We Were Not the Enemy: Remembering the United States’ Latin-American Civilian Internment Program of World War II
Donald, Heidi Gurcke. We Were Not the Enemy: Remembering the United States’ Latin-American Civilian Internment Program of World War II. iUniverse.com, 2006. (a family memoir) Visit the Book's Website The United States clandestinely funds the operation of a huge prison...
The Japanese Thread: A Life in the U.S. Foreign Service
Emmerson, John K. The Japanese Thread: A Life in the U.S. Foreign Service. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978. (section on Peru and internment/deportation program-focus is Japanese, but Germans in Peru had similar experiences) Buy Online
Shattered Lives, Shattered Dreams: The Disrupted Lives of Families in America’s Internment Camps
Estlack, Russell. Shattered Lives, Shattered Dreams: The Disrupted Lives of Families in America's Internment Camps. Bonneville Books, Cedar Fort, Inc., Springville, Utah, 2011. Anti-communist paranoia during World War II led to the internment of thousands of...
Guerra Mundial: Lista Negra en Ecuador
Estrada, Jenny. II Guerra Mundial: Lista Negra en Ecuador. Poligráfica,Guayaquil, 2006. (Available through author: ) Guerra Mundial: Lista Negra en Ecuador, authored by the Guayaquil historian Jenny Estrada Ruiz, was translated into Dutch and...
Manufacturing Hysteria: A History of Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America
Feldman, Jay. Manufacturing Hysteria: A History of Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America. Pantheon Books, New York, 2011. (Chapters nine and ten deal with WWII internment/relocation programs.) In this wide-ranging history, Jay Feldman takes us from...
UnCivil Liberties: Italian Americans Under Siege during World War II
Fox, Stephen. UnCivil Liberties: Italian Americans Under Siege during World War II. Universal Publishers, 2000. (revised and updated edition of The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans during World War II. Twayne Publishers,...
America’s Invisible Gulag: A Biography of German American Internment & Exclusion in World War II: Memory & History
Fox, Stephen. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc, 2000. One of the least-known aspects of World War II is the internment of German "enemy aliens" in the United States. This narrative goes beyond other internment studies in its use of internee interviews and access...
Homeland Insecurity — Aliens, Citizens, and the Challenge to American Civil Liberties in World War II
Fox, Stephen. Homeland Insecurity -- Aliens, Citizens, and the Challenge to American Civil Liberties in World War II. iUniverse, 2009. Set in World War II, but with an eye to the present and future, Homeland Insecurity offers a unique, thematic commentary on the...
The Deportation of Latin American Germans, 1941-47: Fresh Legs for Mr. Monroe’s Doctrine
Fox, Steven. The Deportation of Latin American Germans, 1941-47: Fresh Legs for Mr. Monroe’s Doctrine, Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 32, 1997. Commencing with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the State Department aided a dozen Latin American republics...
Nazis and Good Neighbors: The US Campaign Against Germans in Latin America during World War II
Friedman, Max Paul. Nazis and Good Neighbors: The US Campaign Against Germans in Latin America during World War II. Cambridge University Press 2003. This book is an exposé of a secret American operation during World War II to seize 4,000 Germans from Latin America and...
Nazis y buenos vecinos: la campaña de los Estado Unidos contra los alemanes de América Latina durante la Segunda guerra Mundial
Freidman, Max Paul; Blasco, Jaime. Nazis y buenos vecinos: la campaña de los Estado Unidos contra los alemanes de América Latina durante la Segunda guerra Mundial. Boadilla del Monte: Antonio Machado Libros, 2008.
Specter of a Nazi Threat: United States-Columbian Relations, 1939-1945
Friedman, Max Paul. Specter of a Nazi Threat: United States-Columbian Relations, 1939-1945. The Americas (April 2000). On 11 September 1941, U..S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt took to the airwaves to warn his country that “Hitler's advance guards” were readying...
Private Memory, Public Record, and Contested Terrain: Weighing Oral Testimony in the Deportation of Germans from Latin America During World War II
Friedman, Max Paul. “Private Memory, Public Record, and Contested Terrain: Weighing Oral Testimony in the Deportation of Germans from Latin America During World War II,” Oral History Review 27/1 (Winter/Spring 2000). View/Download from SFU.ca View/Download from...
Pawns in a Triangle of Hate
Gardiner, C. Harvey. Pawns in a Triangle of Hate. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981. A factual account of the Peruvian Japanese interned in America during World War II View/Buy Online