This awful picture was taken by the great photo journalist
Margaret Bourke White.
She made the image when she arrived as a Life photographer with
Patton for the official liberation, several days after the camp had
been liberated by American soldiers including my father, the first
medic to come to the aid of these prisoners. .
This picture was never published in Life magazine
It is very likely that one the two medics knew ny father. We may never be abe to found out because , as executor of my father’s estate, Hugh Schwartz has prevented Robert Schwartz’ pictures from being published for almost six years.
Hugh Schwartz should be ashamed.
A warning to the average reader: The author of this blog (##################### personal email address deleted) makes statements on this blog that are sometimes misleading and sometimes fiction. For example, he writes here: ” as executor of my father’s estate, Hugh Schwartz has prevented Robert Schwartz’ pictures from being published for almost six years.” Indeed, it is SMS who has held up the donation of the estate’s WWII memorabilia to a major University by (a) withholding some of the materials at his residence in Seattle despite his signing off on an agreement to return them to Hugh and (b) failing to sign off on a Deed of Gift to donate the materials.
Bill’s accusations are false but sadder yet, is his reaction to this picture. Why not work to get he material out in the public domain?