by GAIC_Admin | May 28, 2017 | Documents, Internment Camp Documents, Seagoville - Texas
During WWII, internment camps in the U.S. were visited periodically by neutral representatives, usually from the International Red Cross, or from Switzerland, acting for German interests, or Spain, overseeing Japanese interests. These representatives were...
by GAIC_Admin | May 25, 2017 | Documents, Internment Camp Documents, Seagoville - Texas
In 1942, the facilities of Seagoville, formerly a prison, were converted into an internment facility to hold German, Japanese and Italian U.S. resident and Latin American internees. Although it was intended to serve primarily as a facility for families in which both...