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Friends of Texas Historical Commission Receive NPS Grant
In June 2015, Friends of the Texas Historical Commission received $16,000 from the National Park Service, which administers the Japanese Confinement Sites Grant Program. They will research and document a fading mural that was painted by an internee in the former...
Tuna Canyon Coalition Receives NPS Grant
In June 2015, the San Fernando Valley Japanese Community Center, Pacoima, California, and the Community Center's Tuna Canyon Detention Station Coalition received $102,190. from the National Park Service, which administers grants from the Japanese Confinement Sites...
Montevideo Resolution 21 May 1943
The Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense, meeting in Montevideo, adopts U.S. Department of Justice/State Department resolutions to allow U.S. to provide detention accommodations and shipping expenses for Latin Axis nationals to the U.S., a process...
1947 U.S. State Department, Immigration & Naturalization letter to Crystal City, TX internee
This 1947 letter to an internee held at Crystal City, TX, offers a thirty day parole from the Camp to prepare to depart the United States.
Department of Justice, 1942 Regulations for Enemy Aliens
Department of Justice, 1942 Regulations for Enemy Aliens A booklet with cover letter, lists “conduct to be observed by alien enemies.” (courtesy of an internee family)
White to Lafoon memo, 30 Jan 1946
30 Jan 1946 Memorandum in "Statistics," Box 70, Special War Problems Division, RG 59, NA — numbers/ethnicities of Latin Americans brought to the U.S. and countries from which they came
Nov 1945 U. S. State Department memo to Latin American countries
This U.S. State Department memorandum requests that Latin American countries with citizens or residents being held as enemy aliens in the United States, let U.S. officials know whether they want to resume responsibility for these individuals, or allow the U.S. to...
4 Jan 1946 U.S. State Department Notice to Latin American Internees
This 4 Jan 1946 State Department memo was sent to all Latin American internees and parolees, attempting to answer questions internees had about when they might be released and whether or not they would be allowed to return to their homes in Latin America.
The Ennis Transcript
Railroader Christmas Cards
List of Fort Lincoln Internees
Max Ebel’s Internment Order
US Internment Camp & Facility Map
National Register of Historic Places nomination Crystal City, Texas
Download the National Register of Historic Places nomination Crystal City, Texas (PDF)
Crystal City Family Internment Camp Interpretive Panels Exhibit – Final Plan
Download & View the Crystal City Family Internment Camp - interpretive panels (PDF)
Schmitz Letters for Immigration
1949-01-28 INS-Schmitz Letter
1949-01-27 S. 658, US Senate Bill
Christa Schmitz’s Birth Certificate
Alien Enemies Act of 1918
The U.S. Sedition Act 16 May, 1918 United States, Statutes at Large, Washington, D.C., 1918, Vol. XL, pp 553 ff. A portion of the amendment to Section 3 of the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917. The act was subsequently repealed in 1921. SECTION 3. Whoever, when the...
