by GAIC_Admin | May 15, 2017 | Breaking News, Documents, Internment Camp Documents, U.S. Department of State
On 26 July 1943, Captain Antonio R. Martin, Spanish Vice-Consul at San Francisco, CA, James E. Henderson, representing the Department of State, and A. S. Hudson, Acting District Director of Immigration and Naturalization, San Francisco, CA, visited Sharp Park, CA...
by GAIC_Admin | May 9, 2017 | Documents, Internment Camp Documents, U.S. Department of State
Internment camps in the U.S. were periodically inspected by representatives of neutral nations or organizations, to see that facilities were adequate and internees were treated appropriately. In 3 December 1943, Alfred Cardinaux, a representative of the International...
by GAIC_Admin | Jan 19, 2017 | Breaking News, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Special War Problems Division - Latin America
On July 15, 1942, the S.S. Drottningholm left Pier F, Jersey City, New Jersey bound for Gothenburg, Sweden, where internees were sent on to Germany and Italy, to be exchanged for U.S. citizens. The German American Internee Coalition recently received a number of...
by GAIC_Admin | Jan 19, 2017 | Audio, Breaking News, Multimedia, U.S. Special War Problems Division - Latin America
WWNO, a radio station in New Orleans, LA, featured the WWII history of Camp Algiers, across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, in a two part podcast. During the WWII years, this facility served as a receiving and detention station for Latin Americans, including...
by GAIC_Admin | Nov 7, 2016 | Breaking News, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Special War Problems Division - Latin America
Are you looking for a loved one you believe was interned in the United States? Thanks to Martin Huwart, with the help of independent researcher Satu Haase-Webb, we now have the 31 Oct 1942 Camp Kenedy census posted on our website. Most of the men held in this...
by GAIC_Admin | Nov 5, 2016 | Internment Camp Documents, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Special War Problems Division - Latin America
Thanks to Martin Huwart, who contacted GAIC about finding records of his great-uncle, interned in the U.S. from Haiti. He, with the help of independent researcher Satu Haase-Webb, found and shared with us a number of documents and photographs about Camp Kenedy, Texas,...
