They carried Japanese, German, Italian immigrants and their American-born children. Russell’s “The Train to Crystal City” (Scribner’s, 2015) is a dramatic and true story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Crystal City, TX during World War II, where thousands of families-many US citizens-were incarcerated.įrom 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America to the small desert town at the southern tip of Texas. at Texas A&M International University’s (TAMIU) Sue and Radcliffe Killam Library’s Helen Richter Watson Art Gallery. Jan Jarboe Russell, the author of “The Train to Crystal City” will be featured in book signing and lecture Wednesday, April 29 at 6 p.m.
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