
Hand drawn Layout of Crystal City Internment Camp in Crystal City, Texas, created by former internee Sat Ichikawa (Satoru Ichikawa) in 1944-p1945
Operated by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) from 1942 to 1948, it was the largest family internment camp in the U.S. during World War II, holding Japanese, German, and Italian Americans, as well as Latin Americans of Japanese and German descent.
Layout Features: The map details residential sections (such as Japanese and German sections and "victory huts"), a high school and grade school, a swimming pool, a Japanese market, a hospital, guard towers, and surrounding barbed-wire fences.