The Texas Institute of Letters named The Train to Crystal City Best Book of Nonfiction in 2015. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the internment order. Through the eyes of two teenage girls, Russell tells the story of life at the camp and their struggle to return to America after their exchanges. 1, at the Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU.ĭuring the course of the war, hundreds of prisoners in Crystal City, including their children, were exchanged for other more important Americans - diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, physicians, and missionaries - behind enemy lines in Japan and Germany. As part of Midwestern State University's Speakers & Issues Series, Russell will speak at 7 p.m. Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants, with their American-born children, were being taken to a family internment camp that was the center of a government prisoner exchange program called "quiet passage."Īuthor Jan Jarboe Russell documented this camp and the prisoner exchange program in her New York Times best seller, The Train to Crystal City. During World War II, in a secret chapter in American history, more than 6,000 civilians from the United States and Latin America were transported by train to Crystal City, a small desert town at the southern tip of Texas.
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