Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.)
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Name (Latin)
Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.)
Other forms of name
Crystal City Camp (Crystal City, Tex.)
Crystal City Family Camp (Crystal City, Tex.)
Family Internment Camp at Crystal City Texas
United States. Crystal City Internment Camp
United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Crystal City Internment Camp
Coordinates
-99.827778 -99.827778 28.684444 28.684444 (gooearth )
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Sources of Information
- Schools behind barbed wire, 2001:CIP galley (wartime family internment camp located in south central Texas on outskirts of town of Crystal City; called "Crystal City Family Camp"; Crystal City Internment Camp, Crystal City, Tex.; existed during WWII; built on site of former migrant labor camp; its land and existing buildings were transferred from U.S. Farm Admin. to U.S. Justice Dept., fed. agency in charge of enemy alien internment; opened for internment, Dec. 1942)
- "World War II civilian internment camp, Crystal City, Texas, U.S.A." WWW homepage, June 26, 2001(Crystal City Internment Camp; Joseph L. O'Rourke, officer in charge)
- The handbook of Texas online. World War II internment camps, June 26, 2001(internment camps operated by Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) under authority of Dept. of Justice; Texas had 3, one of which was located at Crystal City; Crystal City internment camp; Crystal City camp; first internees (German) arrived Dec. 1942; closed Nov. 1, 1947, more than 2 yrs. after end of WWII)
- "Life in Crystal City Internment Camp, Texas" WWW homepage, June 26, 2001(Crystal City Internment Camp, Texas; in Nov. 1942, Justice Dept. decided to build a "family camp"; Crystal City, Texas, became known as the "family camp"; housed Japanese, Germans, and Italians; administrator, J.L. O'Rourke; remained internment center until late Nov. 1947)
- "The past remembered; a look into the Tulelake Japanese Internment Camp of WWII" WWW site, June 26, 2001(last camp to close, Crystal City Internment Camp, closed Feb. 27, 1948)
- Internment.org; the online resource for facts about World War II internment and relocation of resident aliens, June 26, 2001(Family Internment Camp at Crystal City Texas)