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.
by GAIC_Admin | Apr 7, 2016 | Breaking News, Miscellaneous Links
Werner Ulrich, a former Crystal City, Texas internee, recently started a Facebook page where former internees and interested viewers can discuss internment and share photographs and memories. Check it out!
by GAIC_Admin | Oct 18, 2015 | Books, Breaking News, El Salvador
Margret S. de Oliveira Castro’s book, Innocent Enemies, details the experiences of her father, Friedrich Walter Schlösser, who was jailed in El Salvador, interned in the USA, and deported to Germany during WWII. Arrested in 1941, he spent more than a...
