by GAIC_Admin | Aug 1, 2017 | Breaking News, U.S. Department of State
Ft. George G. Meade was a US Army military post located southwest of Baltimore in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It apparently served primarily as a temporary detention site for German, Italian and some Japanese internees before they shipped to other locations. A...
by GAIC_Admin | Jun 29, 2017 | Lists of Names, U.S. Department of State
“Detailed official” lists of people of German ethnicity ordered interned—include name, date and location of birth, address when taken, next of kin and their address, occupation, and place of internment as of a specific date. Most of these internees were...
by GAIC_Admin | Jun 21, 2017 | Documents, Internment Camp Documents, Resources
A petition was submitted to Congress on January 24, 1947, signed by 156 internees held on Ellis Island, asking for their release, rather than enforced deportation/repatriation to Germany. They requested the same for internees being held in Crystal City and other...
by GAIC_Admin | Jun 21, 2017 | Documents, Internment Camp Documents, Resources
A three page Immigration and Naturalization Service list of civilian enemy aliens of German ethnicity in custody on Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York on 29 February 1944. (A few internees of Italian and Japanese ethnicity are included.) NARA, RG 59, State Dept,...
by GAIC_Admin | Jun 20, 2017 | Breaking News, Internment Camp Documents, Lists of Names
Following are short lists of internees of German ethnicity held in a variety of internment situations around the country during 1944. The lists include name, sex, age, alien registration number, occupation, country in which they were picked up, and in some cases, next...
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...
