B’nai Sholom Reform Congregation in Albany will stream “The Ritchie Boys” as a Veterans Day tribute.

Hellmut Frankenberg, was a Ritchie Boy — a graduate of the Army’s elite military intelligence training program at Camp Ritchie, Maryland.

The Ritchie Boys, including many Jewish immigrants and refugees like Franken Dugan’s father, were instrumental in helping the Allies win World War II.

His daughters, Jill Franken Dugan, who teaches at Guilderland’s Farnsworth Middle School, and Debbie Springgate, who lives in Chicago, will discuss their father’s role via Zoom Thursday, Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m.

Their father began to offer snippets of information about his wartime experiences only in the last few years before his death in 2011, Franken Dugan told The Enterprise earlier. For instance, in about 2008, when several family members were talking about the Tom Cruise movie “Valkyrie,” which depicts the 1944 plot by German army officers to kill Hitler, Franken said he had lived that story.

He explained that, after Hitler’s death in April 1945, he interviewed the medical doctor who had examined the Nazi leader the year before, after a failed assassination attempt. In order to confirm the body was Hitler’s, he was to uncover any injuries Hitler had sustained in that attempt — an explosion — so the Americans could confirm his death.

The movie will be available to view online Friday, Nov. 4, through Thursday, Nov. 10. Links for the film and discussion are free for B’nai Sholom members and $5 for non-members.

Directed by Christian Bauer, “The Ritchie Boys” was shortlisted for the 2005 Academy Award for “Best Documentary Feature,” garnered the Audience Favorite Award for Best Documentary at the Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival and the Audience Award (Documentary) at the Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival. 

For more information, visit www.bnaisholomalbany.org or contact the B’nai Sholom office: 518-482-5283 or .