This article appeared in the The Marshall Democrat-News, Saline County, MO newspaper on April 4, 2007.

Check It Out/WWII internment camp museum coming to Marshall;
MPL collaborates with MVC library on book discussions

By Amy Crump/Library director

My column this week consists of two announcements. Please see below for important information.

Traveling exhibit tells unknown story of German-American civilian internment in the U.S. during World War II

Some disappeared under the cover of night, while others were taken during raids on their place of employment. About a third were kidnapped by U.S. agents in other countries and brought here by force. None had a lawyer, or were charged with, tried for or convicted of a war-related crime. Many were imprisoned for the duration of that global war, and for years after it ended.

Suspected terrorists? Inmates at Guantanamo Bay? No. 15,000 German-American civilians the U.S. Government interned between 1941 and 1948.

Using ten narrative panels, an NBC "Dateline" documentary and a 1945 U.S. government color film about this story, TRACES' mobile museum -- a retrofitted school bus called the BUS-eum 2 -- will be at the Marshall Public Library on Monday, April 16, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

The exhibit is free and open to the public and is accompanied by a community panel presentation by Marvin Wilhite and Paul Gieringer at 7 p.m. in the City Council Chambers.

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