We Recommend: The Ritchie Boys

One Team of the Ritchie Boys on May 8, 1945. Left to right: Guy Stern, Walter Sears and Fred Howard © TANGRAM

The Embassy of Austria is proud to be a program partner of the screening of the Oscar-nominated movie The Ritchie Boys recounting the story of a remarkable group of young men--many of them German-speaking Jewish immigrants--who trained at Camp Ritchie in Maryland to conduct espionage on the European front during World War II.

The screening will take place on Monday, November 12, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Commemorating Veterans Day

RSVP online, rsvp@jhsgw.org or (202) 789-0900.

Location:
AFI Silver Theatre,
8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD
 
Tickets:
$15 per person
$25 per person for sponsorship, including reserved seating and special mention

Limited seating. Advance registration required.

Program partners:
Embassy of the Republic of Austria, Friends of Camp Ritchie, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Jewish War Veterans, National Museum of American Jewish Military History, Washington DCJCC

Hannes Richter