4800 Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
The temporary detention facility at 4800 Ellis Avenues in Chicago was used to house German detainees who were awaiting their […]
Algiers Immigration Detention Station, Louisiana
Camp Algiers, a former INS quarantine station, was used to house enemy aliens during World War II. Located across the […]
Angel Island, San Francisco Bay, California
Known as the “Ellis Island of the West,” this 740 acre island in San Francisco Bay was originally built as […]
East Boston, Massachusetts INS Detention Facility
Located in Boston Harbor, before World War II, the East Boston INS facility had been used as temporary housing for […]
Ellis Island, New York City, New York
The most famous and ironic of the temporary detention facilities was Ellis Island where millions of immigrants were welcomed to […]
Gloucester City, New Jersey Internment Facility
The U.S. Immigration Station which held detainees near Gloucester City, New Jersey was a large, converted Victorian house on South […]
Homes of the Good Shepherd
During World War II many women detainees were temporarily housed in Homes of the Good Shepherd located in Buffalo, Cleveland, […]
Sharp Park and 801 Silver Avenue Temporary Detention Stations—San Francisco, California
Angel Island, in San Francisco Bay, was the official Immigration and Naturalization Station for the area, but in 1940 a […]
Terminal Island Quarantine and Detention Center, San Pedro, California
Terminal Island currently houses one of eight Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention and Removal Operations Service […]
Tuna Canyon Detention Station, Tujunga, California
Located seventeen miles from Los Angeles, in Tujunga, California, Tuna Canyon was the site of an old CCC camp, converted […]
S.S. Gripsholm
Although the Gripsholm and other vessels used to transport internees to war-torn European countries were not technically “camps,” passenger-internees were […]