The train to Crystal City : FDR's secret prisoner exchange program and America's only family internment camp during World War II
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
Format
Large Print
Edition
Large print edition.
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Port Angeles - Large Print Nonfiction
LP 940.5317 RUSSELL
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LP 940.5317 RUSSELL
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Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.)
German Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1941-1948 -- Biography.
Iserloh, Ingrid, -- 1930-
Italian Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942 -- Biography.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Biography.
Large type books.
Utsusjogawa, Sumi, -- 1929-
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- United States -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Texas -- Crystal City.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Forced repatriation.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons.
German Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1941-1948 -- Biography.
Iserloh, Ingrid, -- 1930-
Italian Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942 -- Biography.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Biography.
Large type books.
Utsusjogawa, Sumi, -- 1929-
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- United States -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Texas -- Crystal City.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Forced repatriation.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons.
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
657 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 639-651).
Description
From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered more than 10,000 civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas, a small desert town at the southern tip of Texas. The trains carried Japanese, German, Italian immigrants and their American-born children. The only family internment camp during World War II, Crystal City was the center of a government prisoner exchange program called "quiet passage." During the course of the war, hundreds of prisoners in Crystal City, including their American-born children, were exchanged for other more important Americans -- diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, physicians, and missionaries -- behind enemy lines in Japan and Germany. Focusing her story on two American-born teenage girls who were interned, author Jan Jarboe Russell uncovers the details of their years spent in the camp; the struggles of their fathers; their families; subsequent journeys to war-devastated Germany and Japan; and their years-long attempt to survive and return to the United States, transformed from incarcerated enemies to American loyalists. Their stories of day-to-day life at the camp, from the ten-foot high security fence to the armed guards, daily roll call, and censored mail, have never been told. Combining big-picture World War II history with a little-known event in American history that has long been kept quiet, "The Train to Crystal City" reveals the war-time hysteria against the Japanese and Germans in America, the secrets of FDR's tactics to rescue high-profile POWs in Germany and Japan, and how the definition of American citizenship changed under the pressure of war.