by GAIC_Admin | Jul 12, 2016 | Breaking News
Sigrid Banzhaf Toye shares some of her family’s experiences during WW II with us. Her father, Eugen, mother, Emmy, and Sigrid were visiting her grandmother in Germany when war broke out. Scrambling to find passage back to the U.S., where her parents were legal...
by GAIC_Admin | May 31, 2016 | Breaking News
An internet search found two interesting WWII “Blacklists” on the Fraser Federal Reserve Archive website. The first includes The Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals: July 17, 1941, the Presidential Proclamation 2497 authorizing the list, and...
by GAIC_Admin | May 10, 2016 | Breaking News
Internment camp deaths and photographs of the three headstones at the Edgewood Cemetery in Crystal City are now on-line, thanks to Werner Ulrich, a former internee, who worked with Carmen Sanchez Diaz and Jose F. Cazares, residents of Crystal City, Texas, to collect...
by GAIC_Admin | Apr 17, 2016 | Breaking News
On April 17, 2016, “The Train To Crystal City”, written by Jan Jarboe Russell, won the prize for best non-fiction book of the year at the Texas Institute of Letters banquet. There were 40 entries this year so the competition was steep.
by GAIC_Admin | Apr 9, 2016 | Breaking News
Welcome to the new GAIC website! We’ve added new material and redesigned the site to make navigation easier. Take a look around, and then feel free to contact us with comments or concerns.
by GAIC_Admin | Apr 9, 2016 | Breaking News, Miscellaneous Links
In two recent articles, the Baltimore Sun described the role Fort Meade, Maryland played as an internment facility during WW II, as well as the switch over to housing prisoners of war in 1943.
