Refugees who enlisted

Refugees who enlisted is a working face gallery of Ritchie Boys whose own pages or essays on this wiki document that they left Nazi-controlled Europe as refugees (or as children of refugee flight) and later served in the U.S. Army after training at Camp Ritchie.

This is not a complete roster. Roughly two thousand Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria trained at Camp Ritchie; many more names will fit here once sources on their profiles are clear. Cards link to soldier pages and to The Stories essays when one exists.

Ralph H. Baer

Class 10 · Born Pirmasens, Germany

Jewish family escaped Nazi Germany; settled in New York
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John H. Brunswick

Class 16 · Born Germany

Jewish refugee who escaped Hitler; returned as an interrogator
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Fred D. Fields

Class 10 · Born Germany (as Siegfried Dingfelder)

Fled with his family after Kristallnacht; arrived U.S. 1940
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Karl Goldsmith

Class 20 · Born Eschwege, Germany

Immigrated after Kristallnacht (1938); later military governor of his hometown
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William B. Katzenstein

Class 11 · Born Germany

Left Germany for New York in 1937
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Kurt Klein

Class 5 · Born Germany

Immigrated alone in 1937 to join a sister who had fled earlier
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Hans A. Land

Class 8 · Born Berlin

Jewish family left Berlin for England, then the U.S., as persecution closed in
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Manfred Steinfeld

Class 17 · Born Germany

Left on the Kindertransport in 1938; reached Chicago months later
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Guy Stern

Class 8 · Born Hildesheim, Germany

German-Jewish refugee; sailed to America in 1937
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Eric Waldman

Class 10 · Born Vienna

Left Vienna after the Anschluss (1938) via Yugoslavia and Trieste
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Refugees who enlisted

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