Camp Ritchie News Today

Tim Smith was from my home town, Lake Geneva. In 1965 he enlisted in the Marine Corps, at 18.

To tap into the German PoWs’ greatest dread, Stern pretended to be ‘Commissar Krukow’, an irascible, semi-demented Russian liaison officer

Guy Stern, who has died aged 101, was a German-born member of the Ritchie Boys, an American Military Intelligence interrogation unit, in the Second World War.

Mayer's WWII experience as a Jewish refugee from Germany and member of the U.S. "Ritchie Boys" intelligence unit inspired his deep scholarship on the history of diplomacy.

Guy Stern, one of the last surviving members of an elite branch of the U.S. Army known as the “Ritchie Boys” died on Thursday, Dec. 7. He was 101 years old.

Guy Stern left a mark, first as one of the “Ritchie Boys” recruited to a secret US military intelligence program that helped defeat Nazi Germany, and later, after the war, as a professor of German literature and culture, his attention ever tuned to the stories of exiles and immigrants.

America has lost one of its great patriots. Guy Stern, director of the International Institute of the Righteous at The Zekelman Holocaust Center (The HC) and Holocaust survivor, whose contributions as a United States intelligence officer helped to defeat Nazi Germany, has died. Funeral services for the decorated war hero were held Dec. 8 at […]

Described as a pillar in the community, Stern joined the board of directors in 1987, served on advisory committees, and assumed the role of interim executive director after its founder Rabbi Charles Rosenzweig died in 2008.

Guy Stern, director of the International Institute of the Righteous at The Zekelman Holocaust Center (The HC) and Holocaust survivor, whose contributions as a United States intelligence officer helped to defeat Nazi Germany, has died.

Described as a pillar in the community, Stern joined the board of directors in 1987, served on advisory committees, and assumed the role of interim executive director after its founder Rabbi Charles Rosenzweig died in 2008.