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
New York : Scribner, 2015.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
ISBN
9781451693669 (hbk.), 9781451693669, 1451693664
Physical Desc
xix, 393 pages : map ; 24 cm
Status
Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 940.5317 RUSSELL 2015
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NF 940.5317 RUSSELL 2015
1 available
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Crystal City (Tex.) -- History -- 20th century.
Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.) -- Biography.
German Americans -- History -- 20th century.
Iserloh, Ingrid, -- 1930-
Japanese Americans -- History -- 20th century.
Utsusjogawa, Sumi, -- 1929-
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Texas -- Crystal City.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Forced repatriation.
Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.) -- Biography.
German Americans -- History -- 20th century.
Iserloh, Ingrid, -- 1930-
Japanese Americans -- History -- 20th century.
Utsusjogawa, Sumi, -- 1929-
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Texas -- Crystal City.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Forced repatriation.
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Published
New York : Scribner, 2015.
Format
Book
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9781451693669 (hbk.), 9781451693669, 1451693664
Notes
Bibliography
Includes filmography (page 369), bibliographical references (pages 363-370) and index.
Description
The dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II, where thousands of families--many US citizens--were incarcerated. From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of 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.--,Publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Russell, J. J. (2015). The train to Crystal City: FDR's secret prisoner exchange program and America's only family internment camp during World War II (First Scribner hardcover edition.). Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Russell, Jan Jarboe, 1951-. 2015. The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II. Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Russell, Jan Jarboe, 1951-. The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II Scribner, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Russell, Jan Jarboe. The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II First Scribner hardcover edition., Scribner, 2015.
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