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Otto K. Gruenbaum (also spelled Greenbaum) was born on 18 August 1918 in Vienna, Austria, the second of two children. His father, a Jewish furrier and former Austrian Army non-commissioned officer, and his Catholic mother raised him in a musical household. Gruenbaum studied piano at the Vienna Conservatory of Music from age ten and later continued in Paris and in New York under Arthur Schnabel. After the Anschluss in March 1938 he left Austria under the pretext of a Brussels piano contest, reached Paris as a refugee, and sailed from Le Havre on 11 August 1939. In New York he gave Carnegie Hall and Town Hall recitals, toured as an accompanist, and married Susanne Hohenberg in February 1942.

Drafted in October 1942, Gruenbaum served with a medical detachment at Goldsboro, North Carolina, and at England General Hospital in Atlantic City before Military Intelligence Training Center selection at Camp Ritchie (Class 20). Overseas he interrogated German prisoners and civilians and worked as an interpreter with IPW Team 120. He received the Purple Heart and died on 18 November 1945.

Drafted in October 1942, Gruenbaum served with a medical detachment at Goldsboro, North Carolina, and at England General Hospital in Atlantic City before Military Intelligence Training Center selection at Camp Ritchie ([[:Category:Class 20|Class 20]]). Overseas he interrogated German prisoners and civilians and worked as an interpreter with [[Team IPW 120|IPW Team 120]]. He received the Purple Heart and died on 18 November 1945.

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 Otto K. Gruenbaum (also spelled Greenbaum) was born on 18 August 1918 in Vienna, Austria, the second of two children. His father, a Jewish furrier and former Austrian Army non-commissioned officer, and his Catholic mother raised him in a musical household. Gruenbaum studied piano at the Vienna Conservatory of Music from age ten and later continued in Paris and in New York under Arthur Schnabel. After the Anschluss in March 1938 he left Austria under the pretext of a Brussels piano contest, reached Paris as a refugee, and sailed from Le Havre on 11 August 1939. In New York he gave Carnegie Hall and Town Hall recitals, toured as an accompanist, and married Susanne Hohenberg in February 1942.
-Drafted in October 1942, Gruenbaum served with a medical detachment at Goldsboro, North Carolina, and at England General Hospital in Atlantic City before Military Intelligence Training Center selection at Camp Ritchie (Class 20). Overseas he interrogated German prisoners and civilians and worked as an interpreter with IPW Team 120. He received the Purple Heart and died on 18 November 1945.
+Drafted in October 1942, Gruenbaum served with a medical detachment at Goldsboro, North Carolina, and at England General Hospital in Atlantic City before Military Intelligence Training Center selection at Camp Ritchie ([[:Category:Class 20|Class 20]]). Overseas he interrogated German prisoners and civilians and worked as an interpreter with [[Team IPW 120|IPW Team 120]]. He received the Purple Heart and died on 18 November 1945.
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