by GAIC_Admin | Jun 21, 2017 | Documents, Internment Camp Documents, Resources
A petition was submitted to Congress on January 24, 1947, signed by 156 internees held on Ellis Island, asking for their release, rather than enforced deportation/repatriation to Germany. They requested the same for internees being held in Crystal City and other...
by GAIC_Admin | Jun 21, 2017 | Documents, Internment Camp Documents, Resources
A three page Immigration and Naturalization Service list of civilian enemy aliens of German ethnicity in custody on Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York on 29 February 1944. (A few internees of Italian and Japanese ethnicity are included.) NARA, RG 59, State Dept,...
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...
