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|death_date=4 October 2020

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|birth_place=Vienna, Austria

|battles=World War II

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== Biography ==

~~He they were married in a Hasidic ceremony in Lublin in 1919, and after they settled in Vienna later that year.~~ Richard Schifter was born in Vienna~~, Austria,~~ on July ~~31,~~ 1923, into a Jewish family ~~from Poland~~. He ~~in 1940, Balbina moved~~ to ~~Lublin, and Paul~~ to ~~Lwów. After graduating from high school, he enrolled in City College of New York. He practiced law for~~ the ~~next several decades, and would go on to have several appointed positions within the federal government. He paul wrote to an uncle in New York, Harry Brettholz, seeking affidavits. His~~ parents~~, who had been born in Poland, were in the Polish quota, and placed~~ on a ~~long~~ waiting list. He ~~immigrated to the United States without his family~~ in ~~December 1938, at~~ the ~~age of 15~~. ~~Cohen in 1953, Schifter, along with fellow attorney Arthur Lazarus, Jr~~., became the main attorneys for the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation in their repeated disputes with the United States government. He also served on the President's Task Force on American Indians from 1966 to 1967. He served in this capacity until 2001. Richard Schifter (July 31, 1923October 4, 2020) was an Austrian-American attorney and ~~diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary~~ of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs from 1985 to 1992. In the wake of the Anschluss by which the First Austrian Republic was annexed by Nazi Germany, Schifter's family sought permission for all of them to emigrate to the United States, but Richard was the only member of the family able to obtain a visa. After the election of Bill Clinton, he was appointed to special assistant to the United States National Security Council. He was also a trustee of the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies.

Richard Schifter was born in Vienna on 31 July 1923 into a Jewish family. He was the only member of his immediate family able to emigrate to the United States; his parents remained on a waiting list and did not survive the Holocaust. He arrived in the U.S. at age fifteen and later attended City College of New York.

After the ~~war~~, ~~Richard surmised that his parents had likely been killed during~~ the ~~liquidation~~ of ~~that ghetto~~ in ~~November 1942~~. ~~From 1966~~ to ~~1970,~~ Schifter ~~served~~ as ~~Democratic Party Chairman~~ in ~~Montgomery County~~.

After college he entered the Army in 1943 and trained at Camp Ritchie as an IPW. He was assigned to the same special unit as [[Parloff, Morris B. (0552566)|Morris Parloff]] and landed in France in summer 1944. During the Battle of the Bulge period he and his team remained in Aachen and took part in interrogating the civilian population. After Germany’s surrender he served with the Military Government as a civilian until returning to the United States in 1948.

Schifter studied law and practiced as a lawyer, later serving in the U.S. State Department and the National Security Council. He was appointed a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Deputy U.S. Representative on the U.N. Security Council.

== Research notes ==

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* Ritchie Boy

* Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations

* Portrait and summary from Notable Ritchie Boys slides ([https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EWiegWT3PMxAFXS7MZLxFFLMZg0265GK5_Axp_XnzWM source])

== Technical record ==

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* Born 1923.

* 1943 — Entered the U.S. Army.

* 11 March 1944 — Entered Class 17 (IPW Ge).

* 14 June 1944 — Promoted to S/Sgt. Transferred to DEML.

* 8 May 1944 — Graduated with Class 17 (German Document Examiner).

* Summer 1944 — Landed in France with a special unit that included Morris Parloff.

* 1945–1948 — Military Government civilian service in Germany; returned to the U.S. in 1948.

* 1966 — 1970 Served as Democratic Party Chairman in Montgomery County.

* 1985 — 1992 Served as U.

* Also served with IPW Team 83.

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* Dan Gross, ''Timeline of Richard Schifter for Camp Ritchie'' (private research document; 2 source documents reviewed)

* Dan Gross, ''Timeline of Schifter, Richard for Camp Ritchie'' (private research files; selected non-private narrative findings; 2 source files: RICHARD SCHIFTER.doc, RICHARD SCHIFTER.docx)

* [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/boys_schifter.html The Ritchie Boys: Richard Schifter]

* [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/press_photos.html The Ritchie Boys film site — press photos] (© TANGRAM (Harald Stuckmann); high-res https://ritchieboys.com/DL/photos-highq/boys/schifter.jpg)

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 |death_date=4 October 2020
 |death_year=2020
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 |battles=World War II
 |occupation=4th Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
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 == Biography ==
-He they were married in a Hasidic ceremony in Lublin in 1919, and after they settled in Vienna later that year. Richard Schifter was born in Vienna, Austria, on July 31, 1923, into a Jewish family from Poland. He in 1940, Balbina moved to Lublin, and Paul to Lwów. After graduating from high school, he enrolled in City College of New York. He practiced law for the next several decades, and would go on to have several appointed positions within the federal government. He paul wrote to an uncle in New York, Harry Brettholz, seeking affidavits. His parents, who had been born in Poland, were in the Polish quota, and placed on a long waiting list. He immigrated to the United States without his family in December 1938, at the age of 15. Cohen in 1953, Schifter, along with fellow attorney Arthur Lazarus, Jr., became the main attorneys for the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation in their repeated disputes with the United States government. He also served on the President's Task Force on American Indians from 1966 to 1967. He served in this capacity until 2001. Richard Schifter (July 31, 1923October 4, 2020) was an Austrian-American attorney and diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs from 1985 to 1992. In the wake of the Anschluss by which the First Austrian Republic was annexed by Nazi Germany, Schifter's family sought permission for all of them to emigrate to the United States, but Richard was the only member of the family able to obtain a visa. After the election of Bill Clinton, he was appointed to special assistant to the United States National Security Council. He was also a trustee of the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies.
+Richard Schifter was born in Vienna on 31 July 1923 into a Jewish family. He was the only member of his immediate family able to emigrate to the United States; his parents remained on a waiting list and did not survive the Holocaust. He arrived in the U.S. at age fifteen and later attended City College of New York.
-After the war, Richard surmised that his parents had likely been killed during the liquidation of that ghetto in November 1942. From 1966 to 1970, Schifter served as Democratic Party Chairman in Montgomery County.
+After college he entered the Army in 1943 and trained at Camp Ritchie as an IPW. He was assigned to the same special unit as [[Parloff, Morris B. (0552566)|Morris Parloff]] and landed in France in summer 1944. During the Battle of the Bulge period he and his team remained in Aachen and took part in interrogating the civilian population. After Germany’s surrender he served with the Military Government as a civilian until returning to the United States in 1948.
+Schifter studied law and practiced as a lawyer, later serving in the U.S. State Department and the National Security Council. He was appointed a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Deputy U.S. Representative on the U.N. Security Council.
 == Research notes ==
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 * Ritchie Boy
 * Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations
-* Portrait and summary from Notable Ritchie Boys slides ([https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EWiegWT3PMxAFXS7MZLxFFLMZg0265GK5_Axp_XnzWM source])
 == Technical record ==
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 * Born 1923.
+* 1943 — Entered the U.S. Army.
 * 11 March 1944 — Entered Class 17 (IPW Ge).
 * 14 June 1944 — Promoted to S/Sgt. Transferred to DEML.
 * 8 May 1944 — Graduated with Class 17 (German Document Examiner).
+* Summer 1944 — Landed in France with a special unit that included Morris Parloff.
+* 1945–1948 — Military Government civilian service in Germany; returned to the U.S. in 1948.
 * 1966 — 1970 Served as Democratic Party Chairman in Montgomery County.
 * 1985 — 1992 Served as U.
 * Also served with IPW Team 83.
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 * Dan Gross, ''Timeline of Richard Schifter for Camp Ritchie'' (private research document; 2 source documents reviewed)
 * Dan Gross, ''Timeline of Schifter, Richard for Camp Ritchie'' (private research files; selected non-private narrative findings; 2 source files: RICHARD SCHIFTER.doc, RICHARD SCHIFTER.docx)
+* [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/boys_schifter.html The Ritchie Boys: Richard Schifter]
+* [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/press_photos.html The Ritchie Boys film site — press photos] (© TANGRAM (Harald Stuckmann); high-res https://ritchieboys.com/DL/photos-highq/boys/schifter.jpg)