William has previously posted even worse things on his own website, “STEVESHITS,” claiming that I am mentally ill. In that effort he went so far as to write to my employer, The University of Washington, urging that the UW hospitalize me for mental illness. That effort went so far as getting Hugh’s wife, Janet Linn, an attorney, to write threatening letters to the President of the University and even to the Washington State Attorney General.
From Facebook: Bill Quick to Ken Waltzer
Keffer letter about Discovery of Buchenwald Keffer letter about Discovery of Buchenwald SWQ.COM
Ken Waltzer — it’s a shame that Stephen Schwartz is constantly posting half-truths and misstatements about his father and about his father’s putative role at Buchenwald both on his own blog and on Facebook.
For starters, there’s no evidence that Stephen’s claim, below, is true that “He [Dr. Robert Schwartz] began the war as Eisenhower’s poison gas expert.” Dr. Robert Schwartz was fresh out of medical school, and had no experience with poison gas other than what he was taught by the military, which hardly would qualify him as “Eisenhower’s poison gas expert”.
Second, Stephen’s claim that his father was “the leader of the first medics into the camp [Buchenwald]” is completely unsubstantiated. Stephen elsewhere makes other similar unsubstantiated claims, such as “my Dad was one of the Americans who found the inmates I [sic] fleeing Buchenwald” (in truth it was Frederic Keffer and his colleagues who found the camp — see http://swq.com/Keffer%20letter%2005may1975.htm). It’s extremely sad that the history of Buchenwald, as well as his father’s role (if any) in the care of Buchenwald ex-prisoners are distorted by these repeated misstatements.
RESPONSE
Ken:
William Quick’s response to you , is a sad example of the truly evil things Hugh Schwartz is doing.
If there is controversy about my father’s story, then the best way it would be answered is by putting the materials in the public domain. Rather than allowing that to happen, Hugh has taken illegal possession of our joint property and hidden them, supposedly in his lawyers office, where he says he intends to allow the materials to “rot” so that nobody, including qualified scholars, can see them.
As for facts, I do suggest you read the letter from Dr. Keffer. The letter is one of several such accounts of the discovery of the camp. Nothing in Dr. Keffler’s the letter refers to my father. For that matter nothing there refers to any of the others who have written their stories of the liberation including the account just posted here on FACEBOOK about Joe Lockard’s Uncle George.
If anything, Bill’s attacks make it even more important to publish the pictures so that the few surviving inmates and soldiers can tell us their stories!
As for Bill’s attack on my Dad’s time with Eisenhower, all I have is my memories of what my father told me and the records of Robert’s service, now also confiscated by Hugh.
As for the lawsuit, the suit is ONLY about ordering Hugh to inventory the materials and preserve them. Under the terms of the will and signed agreements, Hugh as executor is under obligation to gift the materials to an academic institution which would preserve 
them. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum had agreed to do the preservation work and take some of the materials. Hugh refused. He insisted instead on giving the materials to his alma mater, Brandeis. I agreed but my sister Stephanie (Bill’s wife) and Hugh refused to sign because Brandeis’ contract would have placed the content in the public domain. This is, of course, the normal practice for all universities. Hugh went so far as to call my attorney and leave a voice message saying and say that he, Hugh, would “let them rot” before he would allow me the access needed to make these materials public.
Hugh has had the materials now for three years and has made no further efforts at gifting the materials, apparently because he does not want them in the public domain and no university will take them with such restrictions.