by GAIC_Admin | May 16, 2022 | Breaking News
The Uvalde Leader-News, a newspaper “Informing Southwest Texas since 1879,” published “Texas visitor recalls war internment” on May 15, 2022 about Werner Ulrich Jr., who, with his family, was interned in the Crystal City, Texas Family Internment Camp...
by GAIC_Admin | May 9, 2022 | Audio, Breaking News
“With Good Reason,” Virginia Humanities Radio, aired an hour-long program called “Legacies of World War II” on May 6, 2022. John E. Schmitz, author of Enemies Among Us, was interviewed in one segment about his family’s three-year...
by GAIC_Admin | Dec 19, 2021 | Breaking News, Tuna Canyon - California
On December 2, 2021, Adam Schiff, a California delegate to the House of Representatives, spoke to the Congressional Record, recognizing the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Tuna Canyon Detention Station in California and commending the Tuna Canyon Detention...
by GAIC_Admin | Nov 22, 2021 | Breaking News
We are so pleased to announce that Sigrid Banzhaf Toye, PhD, has joined our Board. Sigrid’s father, Eugen Banzhaf, was interned for several years during WWII, before being released on parole. She is an educational and behavior therapist in private practice and...
by GAIC_Admin | Jul 9, 2021 | Breaking News
John E. Schmitz, Ph.D., son of former internee John Schmitz, and history professor at Northern Virginia Community College, has written Enemies Among Us: the Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian and Japanese Americans during the Second...
by GAIC_Admin | Jun 3, 2021 | Breaking News
Marilyn Grace Miller, associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University, recently published Port of No Return: Enemy Alien Internment in World War II New Orleans, the story of New Orleans’s key role in the complex secret...