Train to Crystal City Resources
About the Book
History in Five: FDR’s Secret Enemy Exchange Program |
- Book Discussion Questions from Houston Great Books
- Photos of the Train to Crystal City
- "Jan Jarboe Russell Writes Book on Texas WWII Internment Camp" by Kathleen Petty, San Antonio Magazine
- "The American Internment Camp You Never Heard of" by Jan Jarboe Russell, History News Network
- "5 Surprises About America's Imprisoning People During World War II" by Jan Jarboe Russell, Business Insider
- "Purgatory at Home in Wartime" by Janet Maslin, The New York Times
- Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb
About the Crystal City Internment Camp
A video made from a public domain film produced by the Immigration and Naturalizaton Service in 1945 of the family internment camp at Crystal City, Texas. This camps was used for the incarceration of German Americans, German Latin Americans, Italian Americans and Italian Latin Americans, as well as Japanese Americans and Japanese Latin Americans. |
See how the dedication of an historic site has led to healing for hundreds of families that were once held at the Crystal City Family Internment Camp. |
- Crystal City (Family) Internment Camp - Texas Historical Commission
- Crystal City Family Internment Camp (PDF) - Texas Historical Commission
- Legacy of Heart Mountain - ABC News Documentary (Heart Mountain is mentioned several times in the book)