If I ever get my brother Hugh Schwartz to let go of his hold on the pictures a major goal would be seeing if any of the corps men survive.
These sorts of pictures are the reasons I feel so strongly about telling the story of my father as a Jew who led Americans liberating Buchenwald. We hear too much about Jew being killed, Jews enduring through torture and illness, but rarely of Jews as heroes.
I know Robert Schwartz was not the lone Jew in the medical company he commanded. Although I think the other Jewish doctors in the company are now deceased, if I ever get my brother Hugh Schwartz to let go of his hold on the pictures a major goal would be seeing if any of the corps men survive. Even small stories would mean 
a lot.
As an exmaple, I dimly remember my Dad telling me of Nijmegen. I had recently been there on Shabbat and had the ghostly experience of searching for the Synagogue, only to find what was left .. as small community center near the remains of the shul .. now used as a museum. There was even a survivor of WWII, a Dutch Jew from Nijmegen who had become the country’s chief cantor. He was away in Amsterdam for the holiday so we never got to meet. That night we actually used a WWII US army Jewish seder for prayers.
Dr. Moshe Avital, Holocaust survivor, and Sgt. Barry Lewis, Army veteran, reunite in 2013 after 70 years. Lewis liberated Avital from Buchenwald Concentration Camp. ReadMore about Dr. Avital.
One of the untold stories about Buchenwald is about who actually liberated the camp. Most accounts claim that “communists” in the camp led an insurrection as the last Nazis fled. I have a friend on Whidbey Island who was in the forest along with my Dad when the camp was first discovered. This friend did not know my Dad but claims that the story of the insurrection is not true and that it was the Americans who liberated Buchenwald.
Perhaps this is a small difference but, as my Dad’s son and as a Jew, I would like to learn that Jews played a role in ending the horror of Buchenwald.
This can only be resolved by asking for memories of the few inmates and the few Americans who still survive.
From FACEBOOK
Dmitry V Vaysenberg
I can not be the judge , but there can be one resolution and it is the right one to be found by both of you . I will say no more , it’s not my place to be the judge , not qualified .
SMS
Thank you for your compassion.
Making such choices is a sad decision.
Each of us has to deal with pain .. we may do so by denial, by avoidance or by taking action to right a wrong. .
I do feel huge pain from this. Hugh Schwartz and Bill Quick, the latter even here on FACEBOOK, have gone to far lengths to hurt me and my children. There have been hundreds of emails sent by them to my own children making threats. At one point they even managed to get a police officer from the town Hugh lives in to call me with threats! Bill Quick even created a web site named Steve Shits where he denied that my Dad even made the pictures!
So, my choice is this. The Buddha taught to detach oneself from the world of pain. But,as Jew, I also know about the mitzvot and teshuvah .. the laws and the need to right wrongs.
I choose the Jewish path.