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This article appeared in the Grand Forks Herold /North Dakota on September 3, 2006.
Exhibit explores internment camps "Vanished, German-American Internment 1941-1948" tells the story of German-American civilians sent to internment camps during World War II. "Vanished" is a traveling, multimedia exhibit, housed inside a bus - dubbed a "bus-eum" - that will roll onto two area campus in the next two weeks. The exhibit will be at the University of Minnesota-Crookston from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, in front of the Student Center; then in Grand Forks on Sept. 15 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the corner of University Avenue and Harvard Street on the UND campus. The exhibit is free and open to the public. "Vanished" is presented by TRACES, a St. Paul-based non-profit educational organization that collects and publicizes stories about Germans and Austrians in the Midwest during World War II. The UND Chester Fritz Library is sponsoring the exhibit's visit to Grand Forks. The exhibit has particular relevance to North Dakota, which housed a German-American internment detention center outside of Bismarck. | Home | |