The Train to Crystal City

Growing up, I knew, of course, about Hitler's camps for Jews and others he deemed undesirable in Nazi Germany. But I knew little about internment camps here in my own USA until I was grown.

This book takes on the stories of those who lived in the only family internment camp during World War II. It was located in Crystal City, in one of the most remote parts of Texas. The stories are sad, with lives disrupted, jobs lost, homes abandoned, and, worst of all, trust in America shaken. It was the stories of those who were sent back to their homelands which were most tragic, however, the stories of peoples who were traded to Germany and Japan for other prisoners of war, and who returned to their homelands to find the horrors of war stamped on their countries.

A moving book.