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The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange

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by Jan Jarboe Russell


  Jewish question and immigration restrictions and, 177, 229–31

  Kuhn and the Bund and, 99

  Liberty ships and, 232

  Nazis and Nazi sympathizers investigation and, 26–27

  New Deal of, 21, 44, 72, 99, 229–30

  Pearl Harbor attack and, 30–31

  War Refugee Board set up by, 264

  World War II and, 28–29, 236

  Yalta meeting between Churchill and Stalin and, 214

  Zangara’s attack on, 25

  Roosevelt, Sara Delano, 21

  Rosensaft, Hadassah, 266, 267, 268

  Rosensaft, Josef, 266–68

  Rowe, James H., 33

  Rubinstein, Helena, 98–99

  San Antonio, Texas, internment camp, 43, 89, 100

  Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, 121, 126, 143, 147, 165, 166

  Sasaki, Sachi, 174

  Sawamura, Hollywood, 136

  Schlueter case, 307

  schools

  at Crystal City, 134–35, 163, 233, 296, 299. See also Federal School; German School; Japanese School

  at Gila River camp, Arizona, 148

  at Heart Mountain camp, Wyoming, 128–29

  Seagoville, Texas, internment camp, 40–41, 43, 56, 189

  Shepard, Bert, 194, 323–24

  Shimahara, Kazuko, 112

  Shimatsu, Kiyo, 314, 315

  Smith, Pamela, 57

  Soong, T. V., 50, 51

  Spain (Spanish consul), as protecting power for Japanese internees, 154–55, 169, 171, 299

  Special War Problems Division, State Department, 28, 39, 54, 78, 96, 122, 123, 165

  Stalin, Joseph, 214, 323

  Stannard, Amy, 40, 41, 56

  State Department, 28, 39, 41, 54, 62, 103, 124–25, 184, 185–86, 230, 231, 265, 321

  Special War Problems Division of, 28, 39, 54, 78, 96, 122, 123, 165

  Stern, Mrs., 292, 314

  Stinson, Henry, 23

  Straus, Nathan Jr., 230

  Stringtown, Oklahoma, internment camp, 79–81

  Supreme Court, 322–23

  Suran, R. C., 100

  Sussman, Margaret, 285–86

  Sussman, Peter, 285, 286

  Switzerland, as protecting power for German internees, 44, 93, 299

  Tajii, Min, 256, 257, 291

  Takeuchi, Toni, 179

  Taname, Sachiko, 178–79

  Taniguchi, Alan, xviii, xix, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149–51, 316, 317

  Taniguchi, Evan, xix

  Taniguchi, Isamu, xviii–xix, 145, 146–47, 149–51, 246

  Taniguchi, Izumi, 145–46, 147–48, 149–51

  Taniguchi, Rose, 136

  Taniguchi, Sadayo, 145, 147, 150, 151

  Taniguchi Garden, Austin, Texas, xviii, xix

  Tate, R. C. (Robert Clyde), 134–36, 169–70, 172, 238, 244

  Texas Rangers, 44

  Theresienstadt concentration camp, Czechoslovakia, 206, 243

  Thompson, Malvina, 27

  Time magazine, 29, 231–32

  Tomita, Ella Ohta, 243, 246

  Tomita, Toni, 237, 317, 318

  Topaz internment camp, Delta, Utah, 162–63

  Toriu, Tsurukichi, 177

  Truman, Harry S.

  Clark on Supreme Court by, 322

  Eleanor Roosevelt in UN delegation and, 323

  Jewish displaced persons and, 263, 264, 265, 269–72, 274

  Nuremberg tribunal and, 322

  as president after Roosevelt’s death, 236

  repatriation of alien enemies and, 246, 298, 307

  surrender of Germany and, 323

  Tsukamoto, Mary, 140–41

  Tujunga detention center, California, 17–18

  Tule Lake relocation camp, California, 150, 171

  Tully, Grace, 33

  Ulrich, Werner, xiii

  United Nations, and Eleanor Roosevelt, 235–36, 323

  United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), 211, 223, 224–25, 284

  Uno, Buddy, 141–42, 143, 144

  Uno, Edison, 144–45

  Uno, Ernest (“Ernie”), 143–44, 151

  Uno, George, 141, 142–43, 144

  Uno, Howard, 144, 151

  Uno, Kay, 142, 144

  Uno, Riki, 144, 142, 143, 144

  Uno, Robert, 144

  Uno, Stanley, 144, 151

  Utsushigawa, Nobu

  daily life in Crystal City and, 132

  daughter Sumi’s marriage and, 314, 315

  daughter’s return to Los Angeles and, 292, 293

  death of, 318

  decision to repatriate to Japan, 121–22, 137

  end of World War II and, 247

  evacuation by, 16–17

  health of, 128

  Heart Mountain camp stay of, 127–28, 129

  husband’s detention and, 17–18, 129

  journey to Japan by, 249, 250, 251, 252, 254, 259

  marriage of, 14, 15

  Pearl Harbor attack and, 10, 11

  practicing gaman by, 129, 251

  proposed exchange as prisoner of war, 121, 122, 124, 125–26

  return to Los Angeles by, 315, 318

  reunion with husband, 125–26

  Utsushigawa, Sumi, xvi

  American citizenship of, 12, 137–38, 251, 289, 293

  boys’ anti-Japanese attack on, 12–13

  children of, 314–15, 318

  on Crystal City experience, 313–14

  daily life in Crystal City and, 132, 292

  death of Roosevelt and, 234–35

  decision to repatriate to Japan, 121–22, 137

  decision to return to Los Angeles, 290

  Ellis Island stay of, 126–27

  end of World War II and, 247, 249

  evacuation by, 16–17

  family background of, 9–11, 15, 318

  father’s detention and, 17–18, 129

  Heart Mountain camp stay of, 127–30, 132, 254, 292, 314

  Japanese heritage of, 129–30, 137

  journey to Japan by, 249–52, 254–59

  junior-senior prom and, 171

  Pearl Harbor attack and, 9–11, 12

  proposed exchange as prisoner of war, 121, 122, 124, 125–26

  return to Los Angeles by, 292–93, 314–15

  reunion at Crystal City on fiftieth anniversary with, 316–18

  reunion of friends from Crystal City with, 315–16, 318

  reunion with father, 125–26, 132

  school and, 128–29, 132–38, 249, 250, 291, 292–93

  Sendai, Japan, stay of, 259, 262, 289–90, 291–92

  train trip to Crystal City by, 127, 130

  Utsushigawa, Tokiji (“Tom”)

  arrest and detention of, 15–17, 26, 262

  Crystal City internment of, 315

  daughter Sumi’s junior-senior prom and, 171

  daughter’s marriage and, 314

  daughter’s return to Los Angeles and, 291–92

  death of, 318

  decision to repatriate to Japan, 121–22, 126, 137

  early life in Los Angeles of, 13–14, 314

  end of World War II and, 247, 249

  health of, 121

  Japanese background of, 13, 14

  journey to Japan by, 249, 250, 252, 254, 255, 259

  marriage of, 14

  Pearl Harbor attack and, 9–10, 11

  photography business of, 14–15, 129, 249

  pro-Japan sentiment of, 243, 262

  proposed exchange as prisoner of war, 122, 124, 125–26

  return to Los Angeles by, 315, 318

  reunion with family, 125–26

  Utsushigawa, Yoshiko, 121, 137, 290, 291

  Uyeshima, Tai, 136

  Vogl, Anna, 116–17

  voluntary internment, 84, 87, 184

  Von Ramien, Lulu, 195

  War Department, 34, 231, 265

  War Refugee Board, 231, 264

  War Relocation Authority (WRA), 38, 139, 148, 149, 246, 337<
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  Warren, Earl, 23

  Weiland, John, 76–77

  Westerbork Transit Camp, Netherlands, 205–07, 211, 227, 287

  Wiedemann, Fritz, 160

  Williams, Ivan, 45

  Winchell, Walter, 98

  Wolf, Henri, 226–27, 228–29, 231–32

  Wolf, Jacob, 226–29, 231–32

  Wolf, Marie (Mieke), 226, 227, 228, 231–32

  Wolf, Sara (“Lien”), 226, 227, 228–29

  World War I, 5, 24–25, 98

  World War II, 32–33, 73, 85, 170, 197, 213–14, 243, 277–78, 323

  Yamashita, Kenko, 136–37

  Yasuda, “Lover,” 136

  Yehudi Express (Crystal Camp school newspaper), 237

  Yonekura, “Killer,” 238

  Yonekura, Tosh, 292

  Zangara, Giuseppe, 25

  Zannoi, Elmo, 105

  Zerbe, Hans, 105

  Photograph Credits

  courtesy of the Fukuda family.

  All photographs are courtesy of UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures.

  courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library. courtesy of J. Barton Harrison.

  All photographs are courtesy of UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures.

  courtesy of Pamela Smith. courtesy of UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures.

  courtesy of Ensila Eiserloh Bennett. courtesy of Diana Foster. courtesy of UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures.

  courtesy of Sumi Shimatsu. courtesy of UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures. courtesy of Sumi Shimatsu.

  courtesy of UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures. courtesy of Sumi Shimatsu. courtesy of UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures.

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