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As life became increasingly difficult for Jews in Nazi Vienna, Richard Schifter's parents took their only child to the station in December 1938 and waved to their son until his train took a turn. He never saw them again. Richard was the sole member of his immediate family to receive a visa to immigrate to America and survive the Holocaust. He arrived at age 15.
After America entered World War II, Richard was drafted into the army. His fluency in German was his ticket to a the...n-secret US military intelligence unit that was instrumental to the Allies’ victory. Richard was sent to Camp Ritchie in northern Maryland for training on military intelligence and psychological warfare.
After training, Richard and these servicemen, now known as “Ritchie Boys,” were divided into teams and dispersed in different army units. Richard was deployed to Britain in the spring of 1944 as an interrogator of enemy prisoners of war. He was later sent to Aachen, Germany. He was among thousands of young men who had recently fled Nazi persecution in Germany and Austria, only to return as American soldiers bent on defeating the Nazis. To Richard, the fight was personal.
Starting with D-Day, the Ritchie Boys were involved in every major battle the US Army fought in Europe, gathering intelligence as the Allied forces moved across the continent. Along the way, they interrogated thousands of Nazi war criminals and civilians to both discover and affect their tactics and plans. Recently declassified documents have shed new light on the Ritchie Boys’ many contributions.
After the war, Richard was able to achieve a childhood goal. He had wanted to be a diplomat, but his father told him that in Vienna Jews could not become diplomats. In America, they could. He served in several posts, including as the United States Representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. He died last year.
Esther (Etele) Katz Resnik was born to a Jewish family in Eisiskes, then a town in Poland near the border with Lithuania. Her family ran a local pharmacy, bakery, and photo studio.
Esther grew up attending Hebrew high school and was active in a Zionist youth group. She is pictured here (third row from the top, third from right) with other members of her youth group, Hashomer Hatzair, in 1941.
Most of the Jews in Eisiskes were killed in September 1941 when German and Lithuani...an forces rounded up the town’s residents. Over two days, Jewish men, women, and children were killed at the distance of the barrel of a rifle—a "Holocaust by bullets."
Esther and her husband, Yosef Resnik, immigrated to Colombia, South America, months before the massacre. She was the only member of her immediate family to survive the Holocaust.
