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  Articles and Essays

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  Theses and Dissertations

  Barber, Marian Jean. “How the Irish, Germans, and Czechs Became Anglo: Race and Identity in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands.” Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, May 2010.

  Clark, Paul Frederick. “Those Other Camps: An Oral History Analysis of Japanese Alien Enemy Internment During World War II.” Thesis, California State University, Fullerton, April 25, 1980.

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  Newspapers

  Cleveland Plain Dealer

  Honolulu Star-Bulletin

  Laredo Morning Times

  Missoulian

  New York Times

  San Antonio Evening News

  San Antonio Express-News

  San Francisco Call-Bulletin

  San Jose Mercury News

  Washington Post

  Government Documents

  FBI files

  National Archives 1 (Washington, DC)

  National Archives 2 (College Park, MD)

  Archival Materials

  Burns, Leslie. Videotaped interviews. University of Texas at San Antonio, Institute of Texan Cultures, 1997–98:

  Yae Ahiara

  Sei Dyo

  Miyo Eshita

  Betty Fly

  Cheiko Kamisatu

  Stogie Kanogawa

  Hide Kasai

  Lucy Lunz

  Carmen Higa Mochizuki

  Roy Muraoka

  Alice Nishimoto

  Derick Shimatsu

  Sumi Utsushigawa Shimatsu

  Toni Tomita

  S. Yamaguchi

  Oral histories. University of Texas at San Antonio, Institute of Texan Cultures:

  Mona Bizzell Baskin, office employee, 1979

  George Ferris, guard, 1979

  John Schmitz, 2007

  R. C. Tate, superintendent of the camp’s schools, 1979

  Margaret N. Williams, secretary, 1979

  Centraal Registratiebureau voor Joden 23, Jan Luikenstraat, Eindhoven (list of names of exchangees from Bergen-Belsen). Archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.

  Crain, Suzanne Wright. Videotaped interviews of Isamu Taniguchi.

  Crystal City Chatter. Newsletter published by Sumi Utsushigawa Shimatsu from 1980 to the present.

  First National Reunion of Crystal City’s World War II Internment Camp Families, November 8–10, 2002. Booklet, a project of the Zavala County Historical Commission.

  Fukibayashi, Masayuki. Unpublished biography of Fukuda, 1967.

  Harrison, Earl. Diary. Donated August 1994, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC. RG-10.088, accession no. 1994.A.0079.

  Here, in America?: Immigrants as “the Enemy” During WWII and Today. Report of the Assembly on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, April 8–9, 2005, San Francisco, California. San Francisco, CA: National Japanese American Historical Society, 2006.

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  Reicher, Harry. “The Post-Holocaust World and President Harry S. Truman: The Harrison Report and Immigration Law and Policy.” Edited transcript of presentation made in the course “Aftermath of the Holocaust: Truman and the Post-War World.” Conducted by the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education and the Truman Presidential Museum and Library, Kansas City, MO, July 10, 2002. 1–25.

  Interviews

  Yae Aihara, Los Angeles

  Ejii Ayabe, San Francisco

  Ruth Becker, Charlotte, North Carolina

  Irene Hasenberg Butter, Ann Arbor, Michigan

  Michael Camarillo, Crystal City

  Arthur Contag, Quito, Ecuador

  Suzanne Wright Crain, San Antonio, Texas

  Karen Ebel, New London, New Hampshire

  Ensi Eiserloh, Anaheim, California

  Ingrid Eiserloh, Honolulu

  Lothar Eiserloh, Honolulu and San Francisco

  Eberhard Fuhr, Chicago

  Rose and Tetsuro Fujii, Sebastopol, California

  Koichi Fukuda, San Francisco

  Nob Fukuda, San Francisco

  Saburo Fukuda, San Francisco

  Paul Grayber, Bend, Oregon

  Jose Angel Gutierrez, Arlington, Texas

  J. Barton Harrison, Rosemont, Pennsylvania

  Arthur Jacobs, Tempe, Arizona

  Lori Lechner Johnston, Sedona, Arizona

  Reverend Masato Kawahatsu, San Francisco

  Suzy Lechner Kvammen, Newport Beach, California

  Heidi Kolb Leszczynski, Frankfurt, Germany

  Bernard Levermann, Euless, Texas

  Charles McCollister, Simi Valley, California

  Carmen Higa Mochizuki, Los Angeles and Las Vegas

  Roy Muraoka, Chula Vista, California

  Tony “Kaz” Naganuma, San Francisco

  Alice Nishimoto, Las Vegas

  Mas Okabe, Las V
egas

  Sid Okazaki, Los Angeles and Las Vegas

  Zeke Romero, Crystal City

  Peter Sakai, San Antonio, Texas

  Richard Santos, Crystal City

  Sumi Utsushigawa Shimatsu, Los Angeles and Las Vegas

  Pam Smith, Philadelphia

  Min Tajii, Las Vegas

  Ben Takeuchi, Las Vegas

  Evan Taniguchi, Austin

  Joanne Tolosa, San Francisco

  Ella Tomita, Honolulu

  Toni Tomita, Los Angeles and Las Vegas

  Sigrid Banzhaf Toye, Santa Barbara, California

  Reverend Alfred Tsuyuki, Los Angeles

  Werner Ulrich, Mt. Sinai, New York

  Johanna Wartermann Howell, Garland, Texas

  Al Wohlpart, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

  Jacob Wolf, New York City

  Documentaries

  Alien Enemy Detention Facility. Crystal City, Texas. 16 mm black-and-white camp film.

  Hattendorf, Linda. The Cats of Mirikitani. Arthouse Films, 2003.

  Hidden Internment: The Art Shibayama Story. Peek Media in association with the Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project, 2004.

  Reverend Yoshiaki Fukuda, 50th Year Memorial Service. Produced by Konko Church, San Francisco, 2007.

  Suzuki, Junichi. 442: Live with Honor, Die with Dignity. UTB Pictures and Film Voice, 2010.

  Online Resources

  Crystal City Internment Camp, 1945. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRfSHgdh2UA

  German American Internee Coalition. http://www.gaic.info

  Japanese American Legacy Project. http://densho.org

  Jewish Virtual Library. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/murrow.html

  National Archives. http://www.468thbombgroup.org

  Pearl Harbor Casualty List. http://www.usswestvirginia.org/ph/phlist.php

  US Holocaust Memorial Museum. http://www.ushmm.org

  Index

  Akiyama, “Porky,” 238

  Algiers, Louisiana, internment camp, 96, 116

  Alien and Sedition Acts, 77, 262

  Alien Enemies Act, 311

  Alien Registration Act (1940), 47–50, 51, 52

  Alien Registration Division, Justice Department, 48–50, 51–52

  American citizens

  children of internees as, 137–38, 151, 169, 170, 295, 296, 298

  exchanges of internees for, 64–65, 88, 96, 102, 112, 122

  as prisoners of war (POWs), 123, 124, 142, 165, 194–95, 323–24, 184–85, 194, 209, 228, 242, 323–24

  American School, Crystal City camp, Texas. See Federal School

  American Youth Congress, 27

  Asian Exclusion Act (1924), 13

  Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland, 197, 199, 206, 207, 227, 231

  Austin, Stephen F., 36

  Barnard, Bern, 241, 242

  Becker, Ruth, 192, 195

  Belasco, Edward, 13, 14

  Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Germany, 197–202, 207–08, 264, 265, 266–70, 274, 285, 288, 329

  Biddle, Francis

  alien registration and, 47–48, 52

  as attorney general, 7, 29–30

  Eiserloh family’s appeals to, 63, 79, 72, 73, 74, 77–78

  Eleanor Roosevelt’s support for immigrants and, 31–32, 33

  Harrison as INS commissioner and, 47, 48, 52–54

  immigration issues and, 176

  on Japanese American internees, 151–52, 177, 322

  Nuremberg tribunal and, 322

  Pearl Harbor attack and, 30–31

  Roosevelt’s internment policies and, 32–33, 152, 322

  Black, Hugo, 322

  Black Tom incident, Jersey City, New Jersey (1916), 24–25

  Border Patrol, 41, 55, 56, 57, 91, 104, 118, 187, 234, 297, 307

  Boy Scouts, 141, 156, 164, 169–70

  Bradley, Omar, 264

  Breitman, Richard, 229–30, 354

  Brueckner, Hans J., 235

  Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany, 264–65, 268

  Buck, Pearl, 34, 51

  Buckingham, E. J., 36

  Bund (German American Bund), 69, 96, 97–99, 100, 113–14, 298, 300, 323

  Butter, Charles, 330

  Camp Amache, Colorado, internment cap, 143

  Camp Jeanne d’Arc displaced-persons camp, Philippeville, Algeria, 211, 223–26, 229, 232, 266, 271, 274, 284–85, 289

  Camp McCoy prisoner-of-war camp, Wisconsin, 77–78

  Carroll, J. T., 79, 80

  Carusi, Ugo, 30, 177, 299

  Cermak, Anton, 25

  Chinese immigrants, 12, 50, 176

  Chinese Exclusion Act, 176

  Churchill, Winston, 214, 323

  citizenship

  children of immigrants with, 7, 12, 76, 96, 101, 111, 137–38, 145, 184, 198, 227, 234, 241, 251, 273, 279, 289, 293, 305

  denial of, due to internment, 324

  deportation of individuals with, 301

  former Crystal City internees’ later attainment of, 319, 324, 327

  immigrants excluded from, 13, 32, 50, 140

  internment of Americans with, xvii, 24, 33, 137–38, 145, 234, 241, 299–300, 310–11

  Mathias Eiserloh’s applications for, 70–71, 72, 80, 215

  repatriation of Americans with, 184

  revocation of, 100, 299–300

  Civil Liberties Act (1988), 320, 325

  Clark, Tom, 299, 301, 303, 322–23

  Clinton, Bill, 320

  Collaer, Christine, 56

  Collaer, Nick, 55, 56, 240

  Collins, Wayne, 305, 307, 309

  Connally, Tom, 31

  Cooley, Thomas N., 301

  Crystal City Chatter newsletter, 316

  Crystal City Internment Camp, Texas

  American-born children in, 137–38, 151, 169, 170, 295, 296, 298

  background of, xv–xvi

  births at, 178, 233

  Café Vaterland beer garden in, 107

  camp tokens for purchases in, 108

  closure of, 307, 310

  daily life in, 105, 236–37, 241–42, 244, 306

  deaths in, 233, 317

  dossiers kept on internees in, 105

  drowning in, 178–80, 233, 317

  employees of, 104, 108, 118, 241–42

  as family camp, xv–xvi, 297

  fiftieth anniversary reunion at, 316–18

  film about, 240–43

  funerals at, 179–80

  Geneva Convention on treatment of internees in, 107–08

  German section in. See German internees

  granite monument at, 316, 317

  health of internees in, 91, 121, 178

  heat at, 177, 178, 237

  hospital in, 91, 167–68

  information about World War II in, 233, 244–45

  internee changes after end of World War II and, 246–47

  internment policies and questions of citizenship and, 311

  Japanese section in. See Japanese internees

  junior-senior prom at, 171–74

  later contacts among former internees of, 290, 291, 292–93

  length of internment at, xvi

  limits on internee mail sent from, 105, 175

  map of, xii–xiii

  mess hall in, 108, 128, 306

  mix of nationalities in, 297

  monitoring and censorship of mail received at, 105, 174–76

  number of internees in, 164, 310–11

  oaths signed before leaving, 187

  O’Rourke’s report on, 295–97, 311

  Popeye statue in, 41–42, 90, 131, 249

  postwar deportation from, 298–301

  postwar reduction in internees at, 295

  prisoners of war in, 38, 88, 96, 134, 169

  psychological impact of confinement in, 104–05, 109, 137, 297, 313, 316

  reunion of friends from, 315–16, 318

  roll calls in, 105, 296

  Roosevelt’s death and, 234–35

  school syst
em at, 134–35, 163, 233, 296, 299. See also Federal School; German School; Japanese School

  self-rule elections of spokesmen in, 94–95

  Spain and Switzerland as protecting powers in, 44, 93, 154–55, 169, 171, 299

  sports at, 237–38

  stores in, 108–09, 118–19, 186

  swimming pool in, 105–06, 166, 178

  teachers in schools in, 112, 134–35

  visitors to internees at, 105, 151, 243, 298

  voluntary internment of family members in, 84, 87, 184

  volunteers for 442nd Combat Team from, 151–52

  Dachau concentration camp, Germany, 243

  Daniels, Josephus, 24

  Das Lager camp newsletter, 114, 115, 116

  Dassel, Marguerite, 75

  Day, Robert, 21

  Delgado, Miguel, 317

  deportation

  alien registration laws and, 48, 49

  of Crystal City internees, 299–301, 310

  of enemy aliens from Latin American countries, 29, 39, 96, 246, 320

  fear of, among Crystal City internees, 57, 298

  of Fuhr family, 307–08

  of Fukuda family, 303–04

  of Japanese Peruvians, 305–06, 309

  of Kuhn, 298, 323

  lawsuits on constitutionality of, 298, 303, 307, 309

  release of detainees on Ellis Island held for, 307–08

  See also repatriation

  Dewey, Thomas E., 99

  DeWitt, General John, 23–24, 162

  Dickstein, Samuel, 26

  Dies, Martin, 42

  Dyo, Ken, 169, 170

  Dyo, Sei, 169–70

  Dyo, Tsutomu, 169

  Eisenhower, Dwight, 264, 271–73, 278, 279, 319

  Eiserloh, Ensi

  American citizenship of, 7, 111, 184

  daily life in Crystal City and, 105–06, 108, 109

  early life in Ohio of, 6, 8, 63, 66, 70, 75

  father’s internment and, 81

  Idstein, Germany, stay of, 220, 278, 280, 283

  life with Aunt Klara in Cleveland and, 79

  postwar return to United States by, 325, 326, 327, 338

  repatriation (exchange) to Germany by, 184, 188, 190, 191, 192, 194, 195–96, 213, 217–19

  reunion with father, 89–90

  train trip to Crystal City by, 83, 84, 85

  Eiserloh, Guenther

  birth of, 187–89, 233

  Idstein, Germany, stay of, 220, 279, 280

 

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