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|first=Heinz | |first=Heinz | ||
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|birth_date=4 March 1915 | |birth_date=4 March 1915 | ||
|birth_year=1915 | |birth_year=1915 | ||
|birth_place=Berlin | |birth_place=Berlin, Germany | ||
|alias=Henry Goldsmith | |||
|death_date=29 January 2014 | |||
|death_year=2014 | |||
|nativity=Germany | |||
|death_place=Palm Beach | |||
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'''Heinz Goldschmidt''' was a United States Army | '''Heinz Goldschmidt''' (also known as Henry Goldsmith) was a United States Army intelligence officer and Ritchie Boy who trained at [[Camp Ritchie]], Maryland, in [[Class 3]]. | ||
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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
Heinz | Heinz Goldschmidt was born on 4 March 1915 in Berlin, Germany. He left Berlin in April 1933, shortly after the boycott of Jewish-owned shops. In the United States he was also known as Henry Goldsmith. | ||
Goldschmidt entered Class 3 at Camp Ritchie on 2 November 1942. His Ritchie record lists him as First Lieutenant Heinz Goldschmidt, a graduate of the 3rd class. He became one of the Ritchie Boys and served as an instructor and officer in intelligence and interrogation; men he trained landed in Normandy on D-Day. | |||
Near the end of the war he married actress Janet Fox, a niece of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber; they remained married until her death in 2002. From the early 1950s he was vice president of Greystone Press, a pioneer in monthly mail-order books and records. He was a member of the Palm Beach Literary Society and the Prologue Society. Goldschmidt died in Palm Beach on 29 January 2014 at the age of 98. | |||
== Research notes == | == Research notes == | ||