by GAIC_Admin | Apr 9, 2026 | Books, Breaking News, Resources
Stephen Carey Fox, whose award-winning oral history publications, books and articles helped stimulate a wider interest in the mostly unknown story of the relocation and internment of Italian and German Americans during World War II, died in March. His book, The...
by GAIC_Admin | Mar 26, 2026 | Breaking News, History, Multimedia, Video
John Schmitz, history professor at Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, Virginia, and author of Enemies Among Us: the Relocation, Internment & Repatriation of German, Italian & Japanese Americans During the Second World War, alerted us to a...
by GAIC_Admin | Mar 17, 2026 | Breaking News, Miscellaneous Links, US Resident Internees, Written Articles
Melissa A. Amateis originally wrote “Enemies in Our Midst?” for the America in World War II magazine in 2013. The magazine is no longer published, but Ms Amateis has reprinted it on Substack and kindly allowed us to link to it here.
by GAIC_Admin | Aug 25, 2025 | Breaking News, Video
The small town of Kenedy, Texas was once home to over 3,500 interned aliens during World War II. Camp Kenedy housed men of German, Japanese, and Italian descent who were ordered from their homes and separated from their families. Many were from Latin America. A group...
by GAIC_Admin | Aug 15, 2025 | Breaking News, Written Articles
On August 7, 2025, the San Antonio Current published an article by reporter Dean Zach— “Repeating History: Survivors of South Texas’ World War II internment camps see terrifying parallels in Trump’s immigration crackdown.” Former Crystal City internees were...
by GAIC_Admin | Jul 6, 2025 | Audio, Breaking News, Ecuador, Multimedia, Video & Radio Interviews
On June 29th, 2025, NPR aired a Radio Diaries story called “Inside a U.S. plan to use immigrants in Latin America as WWII bartering chips.” Interviewees included Karin Harten Schramm, whose family were brought to the U.S. from Ecuador. Expecting to be...
