by GAIC_Admin | May 18, 2017 | Documents, Internment Camp Documents, U.S. Department of State
Three Stringtown, Oklahoma, Alien Internment Camp inspection reports are now online. The first, written by Max Habicht, representing the Swiss Legation in charge of German interests, and Whitney Young, Department of State, described a visit from 25-28 June 1942,...
by GAIC_Admin | May 15, 2017 | Breaking News, Documents, Internment Camp Documents, U.S. Department of State
On 26 July 1943, Captain Antonio R. Martin, Spanish Vice-Consul at San Francisco, CA, James E. Henderson, representing the Department of State, and A. S. Hudson, Acting District Director of Immigration and Naturalization, San Francisco, CA, visited Sharp Park, CA...
by GAIC_Admin | May 9, 2017 | Documents, Internment Camp Documents, U.S. Department of State
Internment camps in the U.S. were periodically inspected by representatives of neutral nations or organizations, to see that facilities were adequate and internees were treated appropriately. In 3 December 1943, Alfred Cardinaux, a representative of the International...
by GAIC_Admin | May 8, 2017 | Multimedia, Video, Video & Radio Interviews
John Schmitz, was born in the Bronx, New York, on October 12, 1936 and interned, with his family, in the Crystal City, Texas, Internment Camp between January 1943 and July 1946. He was interviewed at the Institute of Texas Culture, University of Texas San Antonio on...
by GAIC_Admin | Jan 19, 2017 | Breaking News, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Special War Problems Division - Latin America
On July 15, 1942, the S.S. Drottningholm left Pier F, Jersey City, New Jersey bound for Gothenburg, Sweden, where internees were sent on to Germany and Italy, to be exchanged for U.S. citizens. The German American Internee Coalition recently received a number of...
by GAIC_Admin | Jan 19, 2017 | Audio, Breaking News, Multimedia, U.S. Special War Problems Division - Latin America
WWNO, a radio station in New Orleans, LA, featured the WWII history of Camp Algiers, across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, in a two part podcast. During the WWII years, this facility served as a receiving and detention station for Latin Americans, including...
