BUS-eum 2 scenes - 2006 | 2007

2006 Getting ready to leave TRACES home in  St. Paul
on tour in Wisconsin
Photo by David Sandell/The Capital Times	Photo by Craig Schreiner/Wisconsin State Journal
Photo by Val Edwards	Madison-area high schoolers watch videos in the BUS (left) and listen to an in-school panel discussion about internment. Photo by Val Edwards
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - March, 2006
TRACES executive director and BUS curator/driver Michael Luick-Thrams poses with the BUS-eum 2 in Wisconsin's largest city.

on the road 2007

Born in Leverkusen/Germany in 1925, Eberhard Fuhr grew up in Cincinnati/Ohio until his parents, two brothers and he were interned--first in Chicago, then at Camp Crystal City (Texas) and finally at Ellis Island, where they were not released until September 1947, after being threatened repeatedly with deportation after the Second World War ended. A retired business man and a widow, in fall 2006 "Eb" toured with the BUS-eum 2 and spoke to about 1,800 school kids and others at about 20 stops across the Upper Midwest. Here he poses with TRACES Center for History and Culture executive director--and BUS driver--Michael Luick-Thrams.