by GAIC_Admin | Jul 6, 2025 | Audio, Breaking News, Ecuador, Multimedia, Video & Radio Interviews
On June 29th, 2025, NPR aired a Radio Diaries story called “Inside a U.S. plan to use immigrants in Latin America as WWII bartering chips.” Interviewees included Karin Harten Schramm, whose family were brought to the U.S. from Ecuador. Expecting to be...
by GAIC_Admin | Dec 12, 2024 | Audio, Breaking News, Multimedia, Video & Radio Interviews
Two German reporters based in the U.S. recently had new reports about WWII German American internment on German radio. San Francisco-based Christoph Droesser’s report, “Unter Naziverdacht: Deutsche Internierte in den USA im Zweiten Weltkrieg,” was followed...
by GAIC_Admin | Apr 5, 2024 | Authors and Historians, Featured, Memorials & Recognition
Art Jacobs, former internee, U.S. Air Force Major, and educator at Arizona State University, died November 20, 2023, at the age of 90, in Tempe, Arizona. Art was the one of the first former internees to educate the public about internment policies with a website, a...
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 | Nov 14, 2017 | Miscellaneous Links, Websites
“Good Neighbor Renditions and the Enemy Alien: the Latin American Civilian Internees of World War II and the Integrity of the Good Neighbor Policy,” a University of Colorado, Boulder honors undergraduate thesis by Casey VanSise, “…uses the case...
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...
