Zach Dyer, a journalist based in San José, Costa Rica, wrote two articles in December 2014, about German Costa Rican experiences with arrest, internment, and expulsion from Costa Rica. The first, published in The Guardian on December 5, 2014, is entitled “Lost story of German Latin Americans interned during second world war.” On December 15, […]
In May 2007, the Judiciary Committee of the Senate published a report on SB 621, an earlier version of the Wartime Treatment Study Act, recommending that it be passed. The Congressional Record of May 24, 2007 has Senator Feingold’s comments on the bill starting at the bottom of S6607 into S6609. On June 5, 2007, Senator Feingold introduced […]
Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 3:30 P.M., eight new interpretive panels about the Crystal City, TX Internment Camp and the people kept there, were dedicated at the site. The Texas Historical Commission, Zavala County officials, the city of Crystal City, and former internees joined together for a ceremony commemorating the history of the camp and […]
THE SECOND NATIONAL REUNION OF GERMAN AMERICAN WORLD WAR II INTERNEE FAMILIES IN CRYSTAL CITY, TEXAS November 6 — November 9, 2007 The second reunion of German American World War II internees was held in Crystal City, Texas from November 6 through November 9, 2007. The reunion was organized by former Crystal City internee, John A. Schmitz, and […]
Snow Country Prison Exhibit Opening Brings Internees Back to Internment Camp (posted here with permission of the author, March 2006) November 18, 2003 by Martha Nakagawa
Read It’s Time to Admit Wrongs By Karen Ebel, for the Monitor