us-005578-irn561718-irn562944
type: RecordSet
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn561718-irn562944/acquisitions/1
conditions of use: Copyright Holder: Arthur D. Jacobs
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn562944
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
has or had some members with language: eng
is or was included in: us-005578-irn561718
biographical history: Arthur D. Jacobs (b. 1933) was born to Lambert Dietrich (1908-1983) and Paula (nee Knissel, 1906-1976) Jacobs in Brooklyn, New York. Lambert immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1928, and Paula immigrated in 1929. Two years later, the couple married, and Paula gave birth to Arthur’s brother, Lambert Walter (nicknamed Sonney, b. 1931). Lambert worked as a maintenance mechanic for a factory power plant and Paula worked for a time in a small knitting workshop. The family only spoke English at home, and the boys grew up with no interest in Germany or German culture. In 1938, Lambert submitted his declaration for naturalization, but he never had the opportunity to complete the process. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded western Poland, leading Britain and France to declare war two days later. The United States stayed out of the conflict, but Lambert saw an ad in the newspaper directing male German citizens to register at the German Consulate; he felt compelled to comply. The influx of refugees from Europe into the United States led to an immigration crisis, and many American citizens grew suspicious that there were German spies among these immigrants. In June 1941, the State Department began denying entry visas to anyone with family still in Axis-occupied territory. In 1941, four days after the December 7 Japanese attack on the US Navy at Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on the United States. An executive order in February 1942 allowed government agencies to rationalize the detainment of American citizens and noncitizens living in the United States. In four separate cases, the US Supreme Court determined that war powers of the government legally allowed American citizens to be detained in camps. Over 110,000 Japanese Americans and 14,000 people born in Axis countries—who had not yet become American citizens—were forced into internment camps around the country. On the East Coast, the United States Department of Justice investigated and interned selected Ge…
scope and content: Collection consists of a photograph of German-American and Japanese-American internees at Ellis Island in 1943 and an aerial photograph of the Crystal City Internment Camp in Crystal City, Texas in 1944-45,
title: Arthur Jacobs photograph collection
record resource structure: The collection is arranged as a single series.
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn561718-irn562944/alternateIDs/1
date: 1943-circa 1945
has or had holder: us-005578
record resource extent: oversize folders 2
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/701