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|alias=Freddie; Joachim Manfred Haarburger
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|birth_year=1921
|death_year=1977
|death_year=1977
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|state=MASSACHUSETTS
|assignment=II-496
|ipw_ge=2; 179
|ipw_ge=2; 179
|overseas=Y
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|class_number=11
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|class_display=11
|birth_place=Zittau, Germany
|rank_final=Technician Third Grade
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'''[[Haarburger, Joachim M (31356458)|Joachim Manfred “Freddie” Haarburger]]''' (1921 – 1977) was a German-Jewish Ritchie Boy (Class 11) who escaped Nazism in 1938 and returned to Europe with IPW Team 179.
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== Biography ==
== Biography ==
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Joachim Manfred “Freddie” Haarburger was born in 1921. At seventeen he and his parents fled Nazi Germany, sailing from Le Havre on the SS ''America'' in 1938 after leaving Frankfurt, and settled in New York. He worked as a bookbinder and studied textile chemistry at the Lowell Institute before volunteering for the U.S. Army.
 
Trained at Camp Ritchie (Class 11), he began overseas service in Algiers in 1943 and served as a technician third grade with IPW Team 179 attached to the 36th Infantry Division, Seventh Army. His cluster included Herbert W. Allen, Gerhard Bromberg, Herbert Kraus, Martin Frank, and Rolf Fein. Haarburger died in 1977.


== Research notes ==
== Research notes ==
* 5th Army
* 5th Army
* Civil Life


== Gallery ==
== Gallery ==
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== Timeline ==
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* 1921 — Born (Zittau / German-Jewish family).
* 1938 — Emigrated via SS America from Le Havre; settled in New York.
* 1942 — Lowell Institute textile chemistry study.
* Camp Ritchie Class 11 — IPW training.
* 1943 — Overseas service begins in Algiers.
* 1945 — T/3, IPW Team 179, 36th Infantry Division, Seventh Army.
* 1977 — Died.
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== Sources ==
== Sources ==
* Camp Ritchie class roster (classes 1–31), merged research file
* Diana Nelson Jones, “Family artifacts reveal kin’s top-secret WWII service,” ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', 8 January 2018 (RB Archive ProQuest)
* Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data
* Dan Gross research spreadsheets, including original Excel timeline/roster work, combined with other research and records
* NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
* NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
* 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
* 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
 
* Dan Gross, ''Timeline of Joachim M Haarburger for Camp Ritchie'' (private research document; 1 source documents reviewed)
 
* Dan Gross, ''Timeline of Haarburger, Joachim M for Camp Ritchie'' (private research files; selected non-private narrative findings; 1 source files: JOACHIM M. HAARBURGER.doc)
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