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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
Stephan worked as clerk in office and attended night school. He (From Camp Ritchie records at NARA, published biography, oral histories and Internet). He was born in Berlin and raised in an orphanage. In 1939 he was sent with other orphanage children to France on a Kindertransport; a Kindertransport identification paper for the German-Jewish refugee child Heinz Stephan Lewy, issued for children coming from Germany and Central Europe to Paris, survives in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and was shared on the Ritchie Boys of WWII Facebook page. He emigrated to the United States in 1942 and was drafted into the U.S. Because of his language skills he was sent to Camp Ritchie for military intelligence training. He served with the 6th Armored Division—described in page posts as a favorite of Gen. As a German refugee in American uniform he was warned of the danger of capture by Nazi forces. Facebook material states that he fought in the Battle of the Bulge and participated in the liberation of Buchenwald. He was featured among the Ritchie Boys discussed in Bruce Henderson's ''Sons and Soldiers'', appeared in local Holocaust-education resources (including the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo and later the Buffalo Jewish Federation), and attended related public events. | |||
On 25 June 1942, Lewy arrived in New York (Brooklyn) and reunited with parents. | On 25 June 1942, Lewy arrived in New York (Brooklyn) and reunited with parents. | ||