Despite my brother Hugh and sister Stephanies’s sad efforts to destroy the collection of images my father made in Buchenwald and my brother in law’s efforts to demean my Dad’s memory by claiming he did not make the pictures, I have (poor) copies made of the images taken by my Dad.
I wrote to my brother this week asking, since I co-0wn the images, if after three years, he would permit me to visit his lawyer in Boston to at least see if the pictures still exist.
Of course, I have the legal right to see my own property but Hugh has not responded and my lawyer advises me against going the extreme of going to the police. Instead Hugh wrote today that he has not permitted his own daughter to see the images .. either because they are in in such terrible shape or because she may not want to see them?
So today, shortly after Memorial Day, a few weeks after the seventieth anniversary of the discovery of Buchenwald and seven years after the anniversary of Robert Schwartz’s death, I have used what I have to figure out where he went after Buchenwald.
Someplace on this route, ultimately in Paris and then home, Robert not only developed the films but used a makeshift enlarger to make prints. I wish there were a better way to honor his memory.
Hugh Schwartz
This is how you honor Dad and make things better? You lie on your website?
In the honor of Dad, if not for any other reason, I ask you to stop publishing family issues on your website.
What do you think it accomplishes?
Given the choice of breaking a dead man’s heart and dishonoring his living legacy, what choice do I have?
Hugh Schwartz
A public forum is not a place to discuss this. You do not even have the courtesy to respond to the questions I asked.
This thread is the first time I have emailed you in over 2 years. I did it in the hopes that in the memory of father you would stop this insanity.
I was wrong. Please send all future correspondence through your attorney.
One reason I prefer to conduct these conversations on TA is that I was receiving literally hundreds of emails, often in a day or two, from Hugh,his wife, my sister and her husband.
They went so far as to demand all of my emails from the UW under the public disclosure act and accused this site of pornography!
Their emails themselves were full of invective.
They also went to the UW and tried to get me fired because, according to my brother in law (a retired endocrinologist) I am mentally ill.
I decided to just publish their emails , whenever appropriate, since I had hoped it might lessen the burden on my emotions and my email system.
They are, of course free to use TA to respond to anything here.