by GAIC_Admin | Jun 20, 2017 | Breaking News, Internment Camp Documents, Lists of Names
Following are short lists of internees of German ethnicity held in a variety of internment situations around the country during 1944. The lists include name, sex, age, alien registration number, occupation, country in which they were picked up, and in some cases, next...
by GAIC_Admin | Jun 7, 2017 | Events, Multimedia, Video
Published May 24, 2017, “Camp of the Innocents” is a documentary film about the Camp Algiers Alien Detention Station in Louisiana (near New Orleans), the Latin American civilians housed there, and the WW II Enemy Alien Control Program. Produced by Jack...
by GAIC_Admin | Jun 3, 2017 | Documents, Ft. Lincoln, Bismarck, North Dakota, Internment Camp Documents, Resources
Ft. Lincoln, Bismarck, North Dakota, the largest WW II internment camp for men in the U.S., housed more than 4000 civilians, mostly of German and Japanese ethnicity, during the war, closing its doors in 1946. This 30 June 1945 census of German Americans and Latin...
by GAIC_Admin | May 28, 2017 | Documents, Internment Camp Documents, Seagoville - Texas
During WWII, internment camps in the U.S. were visited periodically by neutral representatives, usually from the International Red Cross, or from Switzerland, acting for German interests, or Spain, overseeing Japanese interests. These representatives were...
by GAIC_Admin | May 25, 2017 | Documents, Ft. Lincoln, Bismarck, North Dakota, Internment Camp Documents, U.S. Department of State
On October 24-25, 1945, Ft. Lincoln was inspected by Dr. Rudolph Fischer, Swiss Legation representative, and Van Arsdale Turner, Department of State. Activated in 1942 as an internment camp for civilians of Japanese ethnicity, it later became exclusively a camp for...
by GAIC_Admin | May 25, 2017 | Documents, Internment Camp Documents, Seagoville - Texas
In 1942, the facilities of Seagoville, formerly a prison, were converted into an internment facility to hold German, Japanese and Italian U.S. resident and Latin American internees. Although it was intended to serve primarily as a facility for families in which both...
