by GAIC_Admin | Sep 12, 2019 | Breaking News, Crystal City - Texas
Joseph O’Rourke, who commanded the Crystal City, TX Family Internment Camp, wrote this “Historical Narrative of the Crystal City Internment Camp” in 1945, as the facility was slowly being emptied. The report detailed its establishment, construction,...
by GAIC_Admin | Aug 14, 2019 | Breaking News, Multimedia, Video
Simon and Schuster Books posted this video in 2015, with Jan Jarboe Russell, author of The Train to Crystal City, briefly presenting five facts about Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the policy that led to the exchange of thousands of U.S. and Latin American civilians of...
by GAIC_Admin | Mar 1, 2019 | Breaking News, Multimedia, Video
Lars Hemingstam, author and founder of a website about the ships of the Swedish American Line, discusses the exchange voyages during World War 2 between the Allies and Axis Powers using the Swedish American Line’s chartered ocean liners Gripsholm and...
by GAIC_Admin | Mar 1, 2019 | Government & Organizations, Websites
The Tenement Museum of New York City has an online exhibit highlighting the experiences of some former German American and Latin American internees. These brief accounts were written by students of St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, TX, as part of a year-long...
by GAIC_Admin | Mar 1, 2019 | Video
As part of a year-long project (2018-19) highlighting the internment and expatriation of German American and Latin Americans during WWII, history students of St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, TX, made a number of small documentary films about internment. With...
by GAIC_Admin | Sep 23, 2018 | Books, Resources
Mc Conahay, Mary Jo. The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds, and Riches of Latin America during World War II. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018. The author is a reporter who has covered wars in Central America and economics in the Middle East. She...
