Mr. Eberhard Fuhr
 

Vanished: 
German-American
Civilian Internment,
1941-1948

The library hosted the BUS-eum 2 late in October.  We were honored to have not only the museum and museum director, but Eberhard Fuhr, an individual who was removed from high school and interned for four years.  He told first-hand experiences of his time at the internment camp at Crystal City, TX.

During WWII the U.S. Government interned 15,000 German-American civilians, including citizens and 4,058 Latin-American Germans brought here and later exchanged for Nazi-held Americans. Perhaps the least known chapter of American WWII history, its legacy has implications for today. Housed in a school bus converted into a mobile museum with its own 21-seat theater, VANISHED illustrates this unknown story through narrative texts, artifacts and multi-media.

For more information about the BUS-eum 2 or TRACES, non-profit educational organization responsible for creating the BUS-eum, click here.