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On October 28, 2023 during the 2023 Crystal City Pilgrimage “Reaching Across Barbed Wire Fences,” a memorial monument was unveiled at the former site of the Crystal City Family Internment Camp.

  • Fukuda, Rev. Yoshiaki, My Six Years of Internment: An Issei's Struggle for Justice (San  Francisco: Konko Church of San Francisco, 1990). 

  • Gardiner, C. Harvey, Pawns in a Triangle of Hate: The Peruvian Japanese and the  United States (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981).
     

  • Burton, Jeffery F., et al. 2nd ed., Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of WWII  Japanese American Relocation Sites (Tucson: Western Archeological and Conservation  Center, 2011). 

  • Clark, Mary F., Chief Nurse at Crystal City WWII Internment Camp. Before I Forget,  1942-1947. California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections  and University Archives. 

  • Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, 2nd ed., Personal  Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of  Civilians (Washington, DC: Civil Liberties Public Education Fund and Seattle, University  of Washington, 1997).  

  • Connell, Thomas, America’s Japanese Hostages: The World War II Plan for a Japanese  Free Latin America (Westport, Conn: Praeger Publishers, 2002). 

  • Crystal City Association, Crystal City Internment Camp - 50th Anniversary Album,  Monterey, California, 7/94 (Sacramento: Crystal City Association, 1994). 

  • DiStasi, Lawrence W., Branded: How Italian Immigrants Became ‘Enemies’ During  World War II (Bolinas, CA: Sanniti Publications, 2016). 

  • Fox, Stephen, Fear Itself: Inside the Roundup of German Americans during World War  II (iUniverse, 2007). 

  • Higashide, Seiichi, Adios to Tears: The Memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian Internee in  U.S. Concentration Camps (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000). 

  • Kashima, Tetsuden, Judgment without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment During  World War II (Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 2003). 

  • Izumi, Tomoko, The Crystal City Story: One Family’s Experience with the World War II  Japanese Internment Camps (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016). 

  • Levine, Ellen, A Fence Away from Freedom (New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1995).

  • McConahay, Mary Jo, The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds, and Riches  of Latin America during World War II (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018). 

  • Riley, Karen Lea, Schools Behind Barbed Wire: The Untold Story of Wartime Internment  and the Children of the Arrested Enemy Aliens (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002). 

  • Russell, Jan Jarboe, The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Exchange Program and  America’s Only Family Internment Camp during WWII (New York: Scribner, 2015). 

  • Walls, Thomas, The Japanese Texans (San Antonio: The University of Texas Institute of  Texan Cultures at San Antonio, 1987). 

  • Weglyn, Michi, Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996). 

  • Densho, https://encyclopedia.densho.org/ 

  • The Enemy Alien Files: Hidden Stories of World War II (Online Exhibit). https:// njahs.org/enemy-alien-files/ 

  • German American Internee Coalition, https://gaic.info/ 

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  • Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project, https://jlacampaignforjustice.org/


  • National Japanese American Historical Society, https://www.njahs.org/ National Archives https://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/internment records.html 

  • Texas Historical Commission, https://www.thc.texas.gov/