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