Edmond Whitfield: Speculations on a Postwar Tragedy
He was a rising Black football star at the University of Southern California, a successful Army soldier with training in Japanese and...
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Aug 228 min
Peter van Eyck: Setting the Record Straight
Although the German-American actor Peter van Eyck was one of the best-known figures to pass through Camp Ritchie, his biography is...
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Jul 14 min
Erik Moldauer
Erik Moldauer was born on May 18 in Vienna, Austria to Leopold Moritz and Elsa Moldauer. Leopold ran a business in clothing...
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May 2423 min
Harryette Hunter Emmerson: From Kitchen to Bomb Crater
Of all the people who passed through Camp Ritchie, Harryette Hunter Emmerson seems to have been the only one assigned to Los Alamos at...
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Apr 1231 min
Ernst Cramer: German, American, Jew
When Ernst Cramer died, he was buried in the Jewish cemetery of his hometown of Augsburg Germany, as he had wished. Ordinarily, this...
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Feb 1633 min
Georges Skibine: Ballet Dancer and CI Operative
Georges Skibine1 was born in the Ukrainian town of Yasnaya Poliana (in Kherson) at the height of the Ukrainian-Soviet War. On his...
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Dec 4, 202317 min
Hans Habe: An Ostentatious Leader
Hans Habe awakened contradictory emotions in his men. They laughed at his aristocratic air, at his uniquely designed dress uniform...
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Nov 6, 202334 min
Joseph Wechsberg: Epicurean Master of Cultural Commentary
He was a classical musician, a gastronome, an historian, a biographer, and a novelist. First and foremost, he was an American...
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Jun 30, 202331 min
Benno Frank: One of the Best
In April 1990 Peter Wyden, father of Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, organized a reunion of members of the 2nd and 3rd Mobile Radio...
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May 31, 20239 min
John Lewis Kay (Giovanni Kaumheimer), We didn't have it so easy in Italy...
John Lewis Kay was born in Munich, September 13, 1919, as Hans Ludwig Kaumheimer, to a prosperous Jewish family. He was the second of...
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May 4, 202328 min
David Akira Itami: A Kibei Tragedy
On December 26, 1950, David Akira Itami fatally shot himself. In Japan, the popular consensus was that the despair leading to Akira’s...
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Mar 6, 202320 min
Rubén Cobos: Collector of Songs and Folktales
Throughout his lifetime, Rubén Cobos combined an exuberant wit with an extraordinarily driven sense of purpose, becoming both a lyric...
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Jan 13, 202320 min
Jere Knight: More Than Lassie’s “Mother”
There is an interesting story about how Ruth Brylawski acquired the first name “Jere,” and it can be found in the Encyclopedia...
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Dec 1, 20229 min
Fred Fields (Siegfried Dingfelder): You Couldn't Get More German Than That
Fred Fields was born Siegfried Dingfielder and fled Germany with his family just after Kristallnacht. They arrived in the United States...
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Nov 7, 202219 min
Klaus Mann: Son of a Genius
When Klaus Mann was born in November, 1906, in Munich, his father, Thomas, was already a dominant force in German literature. Thomas...
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Nov 4, 202210 min
Ferdinand Sperl: The International Life of a Swiss Hotelkeeper
Among the papers of Ferdinand Sperl, there is a small black book in which he chronicled the stages of his life from his ...
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Sep 20, 20224 min
Erich Waldmann (Eric Waldman): A Spy From All Angles
Born in Vienna Austria, Eric Waldmann attended the University of Vienna where he receive his PhD in Biology. After Hitler marched into...
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Aug 24, 202213 min
Stephen Sigmund Mosbacher: A Hero from Nuremberg
In the 1920s the town of Nuremberg could claim a proud history. It was dominated by a castle built by the later Holy Roman Emperor Henry...
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Aug 8, 20223 min
Simon "Si"Lewen: An Artist of Pain and Resilience
Si Lewen (his professional name), was born in Lublin, Poland, on November 8, 1918, was an internationally known artist who put his...
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Jul 6, 202212 min
Arthur H. Jaffe: The Jewish “Professor”
When, in his novel The Crusaders (1948), the German writer Stefan Heym depicted the moral complexities of the soldiers who served in...
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