With Mom (Hedwig), 1922

With Grandfather, 1926

With Werner (younger brother), 1927

With Werner, 1928

My parents (Julius and Hedwig), Werner, and Eleonore (younger sister), 1937

Cousin Marianne and Grandmother Rebecca Silverberg, around 1936

At far left wearing a vest, with my fellow members of the youth group of the Hildesheim Jewish community in 1936 on a bicycle tour

Far right with my fellow members of the youth group on a hike, including Cantor Cysner (third from left under the tree) and Gerda Schoenenberg (standing on the left), early 1937

Oskar Stern, teacher at Jewish Elementary School in Hildesheim and Werner Stern (top row, second from right)

On the far right, at the Picadilly Room at the Melbourne Hotel, 1939

My naturalization document (back and front)

Entering the Army at Fort Leavenworth, KS, Fall 1942

Camp Ritchie entrance, 1944

Interrogation in Belgium, Winter, 1944

1st Army Headquarters Interrogation Teams, 1944

As an accordion player, 1945

The Ritchie Boys: Guy Stern (left), Lt. Walter Sears (middle), Fred Howard (right), Victory Europe Day, 1945

After homecoming in St. Louis, 1946

On the day of my wedding to Margith (1949), with Uncle Benno and Aunt Ethyl

University of Cincinnati, 1981 costume ball. Second from the left is Heinz Starkulla, Sr. I am third from the left.

German Embassy, Washington D.C., when I was awarded the Knight’s Cross, The Grand Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1987

2nd Festschrift in Munich, 2005, with Barbara Malmann-Bauer and Professor Konrad Feilehenfeld, Germanists and editors

WSU members of German Slavic Department. Alfred Cobbs, me, Marvin and Roz Schindler, Mark Ferguson, (back row) Donald Haase

At the Aspen Institute as a participant

At the Chemnitz Opera House (Germany), 1999

Growing the WSU Academy of Scholars, 2010

My son, Mark, around three years old

My wedding to Judy, July 19, 1979, with Rabbi Dannel Schwartz and Judge Damon Keith

Mark and I at my wedding to Judy

With Judy in Italy, 1990s

With Judy at the premiere of The Eternal Road, 1999

In Hildesheim celebrating the Annual Festival of Eintracht (and my honorary Eintracht membership)

With prominent German authors Günter Grass and Uwe Johnson at the University of Cincinnati, May 1965

With Christian Bauer, Toronto Documentary Film Festival opening of The Ritchie Boys, 2005

Fred Howard, fellow Ritchie Boy; Christian Bauer; and me at the opening of the film, 2005

With past director Stephen Goldman during the Ritchie Boys Exhibit at the Holocaust Memorial Center, 2011. Photo credit: Holocaust Memorial Center

With Susanna on our first vacation together. Recloses, France, August 5, 2004

Attending a wedding with Susanna, July 25, 2009

With Susanna in a typical “winter picture,” January 2016

At the Eisenhower Library, Abilene, KS, for Victory Europe Day, 2014

With French Legion of Honor Medal, 2017

In Germany with high school students, 2018

With Poet Laureate Rita Dove and her husband, German author Fred Viebahn, at the Holocaust Memorial Center, no date

University of Michigan Homecoming Game, Veteran of the Week, October 2018

Visiting Normandy, May 25, 2016