![]() ![]() ![]() Once President Roosevelt made the decision to open this camp law enforcement began grabbing men, many of them who were listed in FBI Director J. ![]() The book does an amazing job – through various sources cited – of talking about what life was like day to day in this camp where these different ethnic groups were forced to co-exist. In addition to Japanese-Americans being sent there so were German-Americans as well as some Italians. My visits to Manzanar in California reinforced that personal belief.īut what happened in Crystal City is much worse. I suspect many Americans are like me in that a) Internment camps during World War II are given short shrift in history books, and b) what is shared is about Japanese-Americans who were forced to stay in these camps solely based on race. Among those at the session were folks from Texas, including, if memory serves, some from Crystal City, who remember trains going to Crystal City but not knowing until reading her book what really went on there. ![]() I’d heard the author do a presentation on the book during the Texas Book Festival about, I think, two years ago. The Train To Crystal City by Jan Jarboe Russell is a fascinating, engaging, sobering look at a military project few know about that took place in Crystal City, Texas and, to this day, the U.S. ![]()
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