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...
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)
by GAIC_Admin | Mar 26, 2016 | Documents, Letters, U.S. Special War Problems Division - Latin America
Report on traveling conditions of group of German citizens from Costa Rica, 22 Feb 1943: from folder 383.7, Camp Crystal City, NARA (exact location is being investigated) — Mention is made of “Negro members of the ship’s personnel” on page 2; that description was not...
by GAIC_Admin | Feb 24, 2016 | Documents, U.S. Special War Problems Division - Latin America
The Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense, meeting in Montevideo, adopts U.S. Department of Justice/State Department resolutions to allow U.S. to provide detention accommodations and shipping expenses for Latin Axis nationals to the U.S., a process...
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.
by GAIC_Admin | Feb 23, 2016 | Documents, U.S. Department of Justice
Department of Justice, 1942 Regulations for Enemy Aliens A booklet with cover letter, lists “conduct to be observed by alien enemies.” (courtesy of an internee family)