by GAIC_Admin | Jun 3, 2017 | Documents, Ft. Lincoln, Bismarck, North Dakota, Internment Camp Documents, Resources
Ft. Lincoln, Bismarck, North Dakota, the largest WW II internment camp for men in the U.S., housed more than 4000 civilians, mostly of German and Japanese ethnicity, during the war, closing its doors in 1946. This 30 June 1945 census of German Americans and Latin...
by GAIC_Admin | May 25, 2017 | Documents, Ft. Lincoln, Bismarck, North Dakota, Internment Camp Documents, U.S. Department of State
On October 24-25, 1945, Ft. Lincoln was inspected by Dr. Rudolph Fischer, Swiss Legation representative, and Van Arsdale Turner, Department of State. Activated in 1942 as an internment camp for civilians of Japanese ethnicity, it later became exclusively a camp for...
by GAIC_Admin | Feb 24, 2016 | Crystal City - Texas, Internee Personal Documents, Letters, U.S. Department of Justice
This 1947 letter to an internee held at Crystal City, TX, offers a thirty day parole from the Camp to prepare to depart the United States.
by GAIC_Admin | Jan 28, 2016 | Internee Personal Documents
An artistic inmate recounts the well-meaning Easter bunny’s ill-fated visit to the...
