by GAIC_Admin | Oct 18, 2016 | Breaking News, Internment Camp Documents, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Special War Problems Division - Latin America
Yes. In a Feb 1943 letter exchange between Jewish internees being held at Camp Kenedy, Texas and W. Bruppacher, Department of German Interests, Legation of Switzerland, charged with camp inspection and oversight of internees of German ethnicity, they express concerns...
by GAIC_Admin | Oct 8, 2016 | Breaking News, Internment Camp Documents
Recently a 1942 list of internees held in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, was made available to our organization by Martin Huwart, who contacted us about uncovering the internment history of his great-uncle. With the help of independent researcher Satu Haase-Webb, a number...
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....
by GAIC_Admin | Jul 27, 2016 | Documents, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Special War Problems Division - Latin America
George Marshall Memo, 12 Dec 1942 Box 71, Subject Files, 1939-1954, Box 7; Accession Job No. N3-59-87-15, Records of the Special War Problems Division, Department of State, NA (?) — shipping of Latin Americans/exchange with Axis nations
by GAIC_Admin | Jul 27, 2016 | Documents, U.S. Department of State
Department of State memo, Aug 1942, Cordell Hull to FDR Franklin D. Roosevelt Library’s Digital Collections, Series 2:Confidential File, Box 9, State Department, 1941-1942—discusses continued repatriation of enemy aliens in U.S. and Latin America in exchange for...
by GAIC_Admin | Jul 19, 2016 | Breaking News, F.B.I. Reports, Seamen, U.S. Department of Justice
On January 19, 1939, having scuttled their boat off Cuba to avoid its capture by the British, German sailors from the luxury liner, the S.S. Columbus, were brought to Angel Island, California, March 1, 1940. At first these internees were labeled “distressed seamen...
