IT WAS CALLED CAMP RITCHIE, AND THE SOLDIERS THAT WENT THROUGH THERE WERE CALLED RITCHIE BOYS. ABOUT 20% OF THEM JEWISH REFUGEES FROM GERMANY AND AUSTRIA. ONE GUY WAS FROM OMAHA. HIS NAME ...

(JTA) — Guy Stern, a German Jewish refugee who was one of the last known surviving members of the celebrated World War II military intelligence unit known as the “Ritchie Boys” and who ...

He did, first as one of the “Ritchie Boys” recruited to a secret U.S. military intelligence program that helped defeat Nazi Germany, and later, after the war, as a professor of German ...

A lot of other Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria felt the same way and they ended up becoming “Ritchie Boys” who trained at the top-secret Camp Ritchie located in the mountains of Maryland.

JENKS, Okla. — A museum director visited a school in Jenks on Wednesday to tell the story of the Ritchie Boys. Landon Grove is the director of the Ritchie History Museum in Fort Ritchie, Maryland.

Brombert revealed his role only in 2004, in the acclaimed documentary “The Ritchie Boys,” named for the Maryland base where they trained. Until then, he had been known mainly for his ...

In never-seen archival footage, whose quality and colour are dazzling, the film tells of their courage and heroism. Note: Stephan Lewy of NH (Telling their Stories: NH Holocaust Survivors Speak Out) ...