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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 The act was subsequently repealed in 1921.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...
1941-05-09 Ellis Island Hearing
28 Mar 1944 Letter: Arrival at New Orleans of 540 German and Japanese Internees
Oral History Interviews of Internment Camp Administrators
California State University, Fullerton has posted some oral history interviews of administrators of WWII camps holding civilians. Amy N. Stannard was the first woman to oversee an internment facility. She worked at Seagoville, Texas, where the first civilian prisoners...
The Society for Historical Archaeology Features Three Presentations on Internment Camps
A conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology held in Seattle, WA during January 7-10, 2015, had three different presentations about WW II internment camps. "Dark Shadows of the Homefront: Crystal City and Internment During World War II," by Carroll J....
Former Internees See First Screening of “Children of Internment” in Hollywood
Former internees, families, and friends converged at the Grauman Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California, on January 27, 2014, to see the first screening of the documentary, Children of Internment, by Kristina Wagner and Joe Crump. The documentary examines the Alien...
Crystal City Family Internment Camp Placed on National Register of Historic Places
On August 1, 2014, the Crystal City Family Internment Camp, which housed thousands of internees of German and Japanese ethnicity from 1942-1948, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, thanks to the efforts of William McWhorter, Program Coordinator,...
NPS Study Honouliuli
National Park Service News Release Release Date: May 22, 2014 Contacts: PaulDePrey, Superintendent, World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, (808)266-0826 Barbara Butler, Study Lead, (415) 623-2311 Draft Special Resource Study Identifies Honouliuli...
German Sailors on the High Desert: a WW II Detention Camp at Fort Stanton
"German Sailors on the High Desert: A WW II Detention Camp at Fort Stanton" was written by Tomas Jaehn, an historian who works as archivist and librarian at the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Published for El Palacio, the oldest museum...
“Treatment of Latin Americans of Japanese Descent, European Americans, and Jewish Refugees in WWII”-Hearing video
19 March 2009—Committee on the Judiciary - Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law. Video provided by U.S. House of Representatives and posted by House.Resource.Org.
World War II Enemy Aliens Program
World War II Enemy Aliens Program (2009)—National Archives and Records Administration, C-Span Video Library Archivist Lynn Goodsell talks about various aspects of the World War II “enemy alien control” programs and related records available at the National...
Fort Stanton: a German Internment Camp
In 1941, German Merchant seamen from the scuttled luxury liner S.S. Columbus found themselves held in the U.S. America was not yet involved in WWII, and Fort Stanton, New Mexico, was chosen to house the 400 plus sailors. (More information about Fort Stanton)
Michael Luick-Thrams on WWII German American Internment
Historian, writer, and lecturer, Michael Luick-Thrams worked with TRACES, a non-profit educational organization created to gather, preserve and present stories of people from the Midwest and Germany or Austria who encountered each other during World War II. Begun in...