On October 21, 1899, in Vienna, Austria, Karl Richard Waerndorfer was born directly into the vibrant hub of European modernist culture....

He was a rising Black football star at the University of Southern California, a successful Army soldier with training in Japanese and...

Although the German-American actor Peter van Eyck was one of the best-known figures to pass through Camp Ritchie, his biography is...

Erik Moldauer was born on May 18 in Vienna, Austria to Leopold Moritz and Elsa Moldauer. Leopold ran a business in clothing...

Of all the people who passed through Camp Ritchie, Harryette Hunter Emmerson seems to have been the only one assigned to Los Alamos at...

When Ernst Cramer died, he was buried in the Jewish cemetery of his hometown of Augsburg Germany, as he had wished. Ordinarily, this...

Georges Skibine1 was born in the Ukrainian town of Yasnaya Poliana (in Kherson) at the height of the Ukrainian-Soviet War. On his...

Hans Habe awakened contradictory emotions in his men. They laughed at his aristocratic air, at his uniquely designed dress uniform...

He was a classical musician, a gastronome, an historian, a biographer, and a novelist. First and foremost, he was an American...

In April 1990 Peter Wyden, father of Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, organized a reunion of members of the 2nd and 3rd Mobile Radio...

John Lewis Kay was born in Munich, September 13, 1919, as Hans Ludwig Kaumheimer, to a prosperous Jewish family. He was the second of...

On December 26, 1950, David Akira Itami fatally shot himself. In Japan, the popular consensus was that the despair leading to Akira’s...

Throughout his lifetime, Rubén Cobos combined an exuberant wit with an extraordinarily driven sense of purpose, becoming both a lyric...

There is an interesting story about how Ruth Brylawski acquired the first name “Jere,” and it can be found in the Encyclopedia...

Fred Fields was born Siegfried Dingfielder and fled Germany with his family just after Kristallnacht. They arrived in the United States...

When Klaus Mann was born in November, 1906, in Munich, his father, Thomas, was already a dominant force in German literature. Thomas...

Among the papers of Ferdinand Sperl, there is a small black book in which he chronicled the stages of his life from his ...

Born in Vienna Austria, Eric Waldmann attended the University of Vienna where he receive his PhD in Biology. After Hitler marched into...

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...

Si Lewen (his professional name), was born in Lublin, Poland, on November 8, 1918, was an internationally known artist who put his...