Charles R. Stein

Charles R. Stein
Personal details
Died	2020
Nativity	Austria
Religion	Jewish
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch	United States Army
ASN	01182970
Teams	IPW 5, IPW 26

Teammates

Team — IPW 5

Team — IPW 26

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Charles R. Stein (died 2020) was a Ritchie Boy (from Austria; Jewish) who trained at Camp Ritchie and served with IPW Team 5; 26.

Biography

I received a email today from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. In it, Ritchie Boy Charles Stein, a volunteer at the Museum, recalls the day seventy-three years ago today when he landed on Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion of June 1944. "The high bluffs, the constant gunfire, casualties everywhere you looked—the sights and sounds are unforgettable. As an Austrian Jewish refugee, I knew what I was fighting against. I had fled Nazi tyranny in August 1938 and escaped to the United States. But I hadn’t received any news in almost three years from my family I had left behind. So I was fighting my way back to them to find out what happened. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum helped me discover my parents’ fate 50 years later from documents in their archives. The Nazis deported my parents to the Lodz ghetto in October 1941, and four months later they were killed with poison gas at Chelmno." Sincerely, Charles Stein Holocaust Survivor Captain, US Army (RET)

I'm saddened to report the death of Ritchie Boy Charles Stein of Alexandria, VA, August 28, 2020 at the age of 100. Charles was born to a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria. His father was a printer. In 1937, Charles was admitted to the Medical School of the University of Vienna. After the Nazis marched onto Vienna on March 13, 1938, Jews were no longer permitted to study at the University. By August 1938, he had found a way to leave to Luxembourg. In June 1943, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery, and shortly thereafter was transferred to Camp Ritchie for training in Military Intelligence. He served in World War II in combat from Normandy to the Czech border and again during the Korean War in Korea. He then worked as an Intelligence Analyst at the Department of Defense, and in 1966 transferred to the Department of the State Foreign Service until his retirement in December 1978. Memorial contributions may be made in his memory to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at ushmm.org or USHMM, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024.

Research notes

• XIX Corps; Retired as Lt. Col.
• 11/28/1919-A

Technical record

Field	Imported value
row_source	demographics

Sources

• Camp Ritchie class roster (classes 1–31), merged research file
• NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
• 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
• Ritchie Boys of WWII Facebook page, post dated 2017-06-07 (1 post)
• Ritchie Boys of WWII Facebook page, post dated 2020-09-03 (1 post)