Though less well known than camps such as Manzanar, the Crystal City incarceration camp housed many Japanese Americans; it also held Japanese Latin Americans, Italians, and Germans. I recommend Jan Jarboe Russell’s thorough history, The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II as well as the resources listed below:
- “‘They Separated My Dad And My Oldest Brother’—Crystal City Camp Survivors Protest Family Separation,” Texas Public Radio
- “Japanese Latin Americans Interned in WWII See Injustice for Migrants Today” KQED
- “Crystal City Internees in Their Own Words,” Jan Jarboe Russell
- “Texas Matters: The Secret History Of The Crystal City WWII Internment Camp,” Texas Public Radio
- Crystal City (Family) Internment Camp: Texas Historical Commission
- Oral History of Alice Nishimoto, CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
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Texas Matters: National Japanese American Historical Society: Crystal City
- Video of Crystal City, DOJ/Freedom of Information Times:
- “Japanese-Americans imprisoned at Texas internment camp in 1940s watch border crisis unfold with heavy hearts,” Texas Tribune
- “Coalition of WWII Japanese American internment camp survivors stage peaceful protest at immigrant detention center at Texas border,” ABC News