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== Biography ==

On Christmas Day 1944, my late Dad, Walter Lubran, was serving with IPW (Interrogator of Prisoners of War) Team 141 attached to the 84th Infantry Division. Victor Wolff, 19th Class SSgt Joseph Wertheim, 19th Class MSgt Walter Lubran (my late Father), 16th Class In a letter home from my Father on March 6, 1945, he wrote that, ..."even though I have not seen the 'River (ie. the Rhine),' as yet it is very close from here." He also wrote, We (IPW Team #141) will be assigned to another outfit and I have no idea when we will go...." His next letter is dated March 16, 1945 and it in he says that, "...we were just a couple of miles from the Rhine when we were ordered to move to this new unit." That unit turned out to be the 16th Armored Division which went South through Germany into Czechoslovakia where they liberated Pilzen.

Landauer (below left), the son of Ritchie Boy Henry Landauer; Ambassador Richard Schifter (below center), one of the original Ritchie Boys; and Bernie Lubran (below right), the main speaker whose father, Walter Lubran, was a Ritchie Boy. In addition to the showing of the Ritchie Boys documentary film, there will be a presentation by the sons of two Ritchie Boys, Bernie Lubran (son of RB Walter Lubran and Rafael Kellman (son of RB William Kellman). That unit turned out to be the 16th Armored Division which went South through Germany into Czechoslovakia where they liberated Pilzen.

Prior to being transferred to Camp Ritchie, my Father, Ritchie Boy Walter Lubran, attended training at Camp Ellis (IL), Fort George G. My late Father, MSgt Walter Lubran and the others of the 141th IPW team interrogated German soldiers fleeing from Prague as the Russian Army approached that city from the East. In an interesting coincidence, my Father, Walter Lubran, also sailed on the SS Georgic in the Fall of 1939.

Harry had invited me because my late Father, Ritchie Boy Walter Lubran, had served in the US Army's 16th Armored Division, which had liberated Pilzen, Czechoslovakia around the same time that the 4th Armored Division was fighting in Czechoslovakia. Landauer (below left), the son of Ritchie Boy Henry Landauer; Ambassador Richard Schifter (below center), one of the original Ritchie Boys; and Bernie Lubran (below right), the main speaker whose father, Walter Lubran, was a Ritchie Boy. In addition to the showing of the Ritchie Boys documentary film, there will be a presentation by the sons of two Ritchie Boys, Bernie Lubran (son of RB Walter Lubran and Rafael Kellman (son of RB William Kellman).

== Research notes ==

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 == Biography ==
-On Christmas Day 1944, my late Dad, Walter Lubran, was serving with IPW (Interrogator of Prisoners of War) Team 141 attached to the 84th Infantry Division. Victor Wolff, 19th Class SSgt Joseph Wertheim, 19th Class MSgt Walter Lubran (my late Father), 16th Class In a letter home from my Father on March 6, 1945, he wrote that, ..."even though I have not seen the 'River (ie. the Rhine),' as yet it is very close from here." He also wrote, We (IPW Team #141) will be assigned to another outfit and I have no idea when we will go...." His next letter is dated March 16, 1945 and it in he says that, "...we were just a couple of miles from the Rhine when we were ordered to move to this new unit." That unit turned out to be the 16th Armored Division which went South through Germany into Czechoslovakia where they liberated Pilzen.
+Landauer (below left), the son of Ritchie Boy Henry Landauer; Ambassador Richard Schifter (below center), one of the original Ritchie Boys; and Bernie Lubran (below right), the main speaker whose father, Walter Lubran, was a Ritchie Boy. In addition to the showing of the Ritchie Boys documentary film, there will be a presentation by the sons of two Ritchie Boys, Bernie Lubran (son of RB Walter Lubran and Rafael Kellman (son of RB William Kellman). That unit turned out to be the 16th Armored Division which went South through Germany into Czechoslovakia where they liberated Pilzen.
-Prior to being transferred to Camp Ritchie, my Father, Ritchie Boy Walter Lubran, attended training at Camp Ellis (IL), Fort George G. My late Father, MSgt Walter Lubran and the others of the 141th IPW team interrogated German soldiers fleeing from Prague as the Russian Army approached that city from the East. In an interesting coincidence, my Father, Walter Lubran, also sailed on the SS Georgic in the Fall of 1939.
-Harry had invited me because my late Father, Ritchie Boy Walter Lubran, had served in the US Army's 16th Armored Division, which had liberated Pilzen, Czechoslovakia around the same time that the 4th Armored Division was fighting in Czechoslovakia. Landauer (below left), the son of Ritchie Boy Henry Landauer; Ambassador Richard Schifter (below center), one of the original Ritchie Boys; and Bernie Lubran (below right), the main speaker whose father, Walter Lubran, was a Ritchie Boy. In addition to the showing of the Ritchie Boys documentary film, there will be a presentation by the sons of two Ritchie Boys, Bernie Lubran (son of RB Walter Lubran and Rafael Kellman (son of RB William Kellman).
 == Research notes ==