by GAIC_Admin | Jan 26, 2016 | Crystal City - Texas, Internment Camp Documents
Crystal City, Texas Internment Camp List of Births—courtesy Anita O’Brien, whose parents Johann and Hilda Schmeelk, had a daughter, Evelyn, while interned there. In addition, Dilys Neugebauer was born in the camp on March 5, 1946.
by GAIC_Admin | Jan 26, 2016 | Crystal City - Texas, Internment Camp Documents
1945 Crystal City, Texas Camp Census (German American and Latin American prisoners) NARA RG 59, State Dep’t, Spec War Prob Div, E 1357, Subj Files, Box 123, Crystal City, 31 Dec 1945.
by GAIC_Admin | Jan 26, 2016 | Crystal City - Texas, Internment Camp Documents
1944 Crystal City, Texas Camp Census (German American and Latin American prisoners plus one Italian family from Honduras)
by GAIC_Admin | Jan 26, 2016 | Crystal City - Texas, Internment Camp Documents, Letters, U.S. Department of Justice
26 Jan 1944 letter from J. L. O’Rourke, Officer in Charge at Crystal City to W. F. Kelly, Assistant Commissioner for Alien Control, listing the German internees’ desires regarding repatriation to Germany or Latin America
by GAIC_Admin | Jan 26, 2016 | Crystal City - Texas, Internment Camp Documents, Maps
Crystal City, Texas Family Internment Camp map annotated by former internee Werner Ulrich—includes plot plans, drawings of building types, and location of work areas, as well as lists of internees held in the camp, births, and deaths. There are lists of staff,...
by GAIC_Admin | Jan 26, 2016 | F.B.I. Reports, U.S. Department of Justice
16 July 1943 memo. Francis Biddle, Attorney General to Hugh B. Cox, Assistant AG and J.E. Hoover, FBI, declaring custodial detention lists “inherently unreliable” and stating they should not be used. Download: 16 Jul 1943 ltr Biddle_Custod_detention...