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Daily Life at Crystal City Internment Camp

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....
12 Dec 1942, Marshall Memo: shipping Latin Americans for exchange with Axis Nations

12 Dec 1942, Marshall Memo: shipping Latin Americans for exchange with Axis Nations

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
Secretary of State’s response to FDR questions about repatriation

Secretary of State’s response to FDR questions about repatriation

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...
Distressed Seamen or Internees?

Distressed Seamen or Internees?

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...

Tuna Canyon Detention Station Coalition

by GAIC_Admin | Jul 13, 2016 | Government & Organizations, Websites

The Tuna Canyon Detention Station Coalition formed in 2013 “to preserve the stories of the Japanese, Germans, Italians, Japanese Peruvians and others at the Tuna Canyon Detention Station, which was operated by the U.S. Department of Justice during World War II...
DOJ Office of Redress Administration Expands Redress for Internees

DOJ Office of Redress Administration Expands Redress for Internees

by GAIC_Admin | Jun 24, 2016 | U.S. Department of Justice

30 Aug 1993 Department of Justice’s “Office of Redress Administration Announces Two New Eligibility Categories for World War II Internees” issues a press release authorizing redress payments for Japanese Americans born in internment camps to “volunteer internee”...
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