Author talk:Walter George Steblez
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Walter George Steblez was born in Germany in 1945 on the road between an Auschwitz labor camp for Osterlanders and Hanau, where his family was able to make contact with Allied Forces and eventually arranged passage to America – having escaped both Stalin and Hitler. His family was originally from Mariupol, a city on the Azov Sea, but left for Germany during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine in the hopes of a better life. This may seem strange, but it should be remembered that they had lived through the revolution, the famine in the Ukraine, and had watched Avraam, Walter’s grandfather, be dragged away to the Gulag with no expectation of ever seeing him again.
Walter grew up a bilingual speaker of Russian and English and was fluent in French. He later picked up classical Greek and Latin in college. He worked for the State Department in the 70’s and was well known for hosting soirees in Washington, D.C. He later moved to the US Geological Survey and ultimately to the U.S. Bureau of Mines where he was an expert in Central and Eastern European minerals.
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- Virginia Department of Health; Richmond, Virginia; Virginia Divorce Records, 1918-2014; Roll: 101254896
Name: Walter George Steblez
Gender: Male
Race: White
Divorce Age: 34
Birth Date: 10 May 1945
Marriage Date: 17 Nov 1968
Divorce Date: 20 May 1980
Divorce Place: Virginia, USA
Spouse: Lois Ann Tahler Steblez
Number of Children: 1
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- Virginia Department of Health; Richmond, Virginia; Virginia Deaths, 1912-2014
Name: Walter George Steblez
Death Date: 9 Mar 2008
Death Place: Alexandria, Virginia, USA
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- "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; School Name: Washington-Lee High School; Year: 1961
Name: Walter Steblez
Yearbook Date: 1961
School: Washington-Lee High School
School Location: Arlington, Virginia, USA
Grade Completed: Sophomore