U.S. Special War Problems Division - Latin America Archives

U.S. Government Found Liable for WWII Human Rights Violations

by GAIC_Admin | Sep 13, 2022 | Events, U.S. Special War Problems Division - Latin America

Grace Shimizu, director of Campaign For Justice: Redress NOW For Japanese Latin Americans! recently announced that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) published its verdict in the case Isamu Carlos “Art” Shibayma vs United States, holding...

S.S. Drottningholm documents available

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...

WWII Internment Camp, ‘Camp Algiers’, Louisiana, held Jews, too

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...

1942 Camp Kenedy, Texas census now on-line

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...

New information about Camp Kenedy, Texas Internment Camp

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,...

Were Jews interned by the U.S.?

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...