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History of Crystal City Internment Camp now online

by GAIC_Admin | Sep 12, 2019 | Breaking News, Crystal City - Texas

Joseph O’Rourke, who commanded the Crystal City, TX Family Internment Camp, wrote this “Historical Narrative of the Crystal City Internment Camp” in 1945, as  the facility was slowly being emptied. The report detailed its establishment, construction,...
Crystal City, Texas Family Internment Camp map

Crystal City, Texas Family Internment Camp map

by GAIC_Admin | Aug 1, 2018 | Crystal City - Texas

Crystal City, Texas Family Internment Camp map (2018) annotated by former internee Werner Ulrich—includes plot plans, drawings of building types, and location of work areas, as well as lists of internees held in the camp, births, and deaths. Staff, including teachers...

Daily Life at Crystal City Internment Camp

by GAIC_Admin | Aug 30, 2016 | Breaking News, Crystal City - Texas, Miscellaneous Links

Have you ever wondered what daily life was like for internees held in a WWII internment camp in the U.S.? Caitlin T. Dietze’s thesis,  “Daily Life at Crystal City Internment Camp 1942-1945” (2016), was recently published on-line by the University of New Orleans....

Internee Graves at Edgewood Cemetery, Crystal City, Texas

by GAIC_Admin | May 10, 2016 | Crystal City - Texas, Internment Camp Documents

  The headstones from four internee graves were photographed by Werner Ulrich, a former internee, at the Edgewood Cemetery, Crystal City, Texas. He found no others. All of these internee families were from Latin America. (An earlier article mis-identified the...

Crystal City, Texas Internment Camp list of deaths

by GAIC_Admin | May 8, 2016 | Crystal City - Texas, Documents, Internment Camp Documents

Crystal City, Texas Internment Camp list of deaths—from information provided by Carmen Sanchez Diaz and Jose F. Cazares, residents of Crystal City, Texas. List courtesy of Werner Ulrich, a former internee. (2016)
1947 U.S. State Department, Immigration & Naturalization letter to Crystal City, TX internee

1947 U.S. State Department, Immigration & Naturalization letter to Crystal City, TX internee

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.
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