The Last Year Of The War by Susan Meissner

Two twelve year old American born girls meet in an internment camp in Texas. One is a German American, the other is Japanese-American. From their brief time together under very difficult circumstances in Crystal City, the "Camp", they develop a friendship that lasts over sixty years. Unfortunately, that friendship is one enjoyed only through memories because they are soon separated, each to return against their will to the homeland of their parents. Before they part, they hatch a plan to reunite immediately at the end of the war. The focus of the story is Elsie/Elise the German American girl as her story unfolds through the end of the war and then as she attains adulthood. This is a poignant historical fiction.