The Quick and Sad of It
So, last 5 May, my brother in law, Bill Quick, posted this example of crocodile tears: “It was a very moving experience.”
T
he experience? Bill listened to a talk (below) by a Jew who had become Jewish even though his father has been a Nazi. I rather doubt that Bill was moved in anyway that I could understand.
To be fair, most of us have some hypocrisy and that may apply especially to our enemies. Bill is a nemesis of mine. He has been part of the effort to destroy my father’s heritage from Buchenwald. That would be fair enough (?) except that Bill has done much more that is simply evil. In the effort to destroy this heritage, depriving my grand daughter and my brother’s daughter of their heritage … not mention the opportunity for the survivors of Buchenwald to see these pictures before their deaths.
So, dayenu, that would be enough, but Bill has done much more … threats to my children if they did not estrange themselves from me. This evil effort extended to trying to get a court to name them as defendants in the court case even though they had no roles in what me brother did to these pictures.
The dayenu goes on and on. Bill Quick has engaged in a slanderous campaign … sending hundreds of emails to my university accusing me of everything from racism to porn. He even tried to get the University to have me committed for mental illness. He even created a website named “steveshits.” Naturally in the spirit of holocaust denial and driven by the Freudian concept of projection, Bill has even had the gall to claim that I was lying about my father’s heritage.
There is more. Bill has objected to many of my comments about South Carolina, his adopted home. The hypocrisy comes when Bill claims to be a liberal while getting angry when I have pointed out that his congregations has a sad history of racism and support for Jim Crow. To be fair to Bill, my attention to South Carolina might not have become an issue if it were not for his attacks on me. Nonetheless, the hypocrisy of Jews in Charleston pretending to have been opposed to slavery, to not have helped found the KKK, and to have supported Jim Crow is so sad. It is especially sad because, as far as I know, Bill has never converted to Judaism. I wonder whether he could pass the tests of Jewish morality required by a rabbi?
Hugh Schwartz by email
Your latest Buchenwald post 119 sinks to a new low. You attack Bill for no reason with allegations that are pure fantasy. Haven’t you caused enough damage yet?
You did your best to shorten Marty Miasserian’s life – a great friend of dad’s and most everyone in the family. You continued your relentless pursuit of making erroneous comments despite knowing Steph was ill. And when I was hospitalized last summer your response was to have your attorney file a motion with the Court to compel my medical records. What was your need to know?
Your goal appears solely to make peoples’ lives miserable and to injure, disrupt and destroy. That is all you care about.
You have totally lost your ability to discern the truth. Your most recent post is full of statements that are pure fiction. These include numerous false allegations about Bill as well as referring to Elena as my granddaughter.
Please do not bother to respond to this. Because I will not waste my time in getting into an email discussion with you.
I strongly suggest taking down Buchenwald 119 a n d apologize to Bill for all of your false allegations. Then run don’t walk to the nearest mental institution and check yourself in.
REPLY TO HUGH:
Aside from (again) claiming that I am mentally ill, this is a diatribe.
As you know , the key issue between you and I is your expressed determination to destroy Dad’s pictures. Bill only enters the story because of his efforts to demean me, including creating a website where he tried to deny Dad’s WWII heritage. Bill has extended that effort to FACEBOOK.
That issue lies at the core of the Buchenwald series on THE Ave, an issue you could easily resolve just be agreeing to have the materials properly inventoried,preserved and placed where they belong in a public domain, under an academic instituion where fair access would be available to all.
You are, in fact, under contract to do just that. As part of that contract, you received a payment in the form of Dad’s autograph collection worth as much as $100,000. Your violation of the contract is why we are in court.
Given all that, your focus on Marty Miasserian, is bizarre. Nothing in my post said a word about him.
So lets just deal with the facts about Marty:
He was never a long term friend of our father. He became Dad’s accountant because Marty’s boss, the man who had been Dad’s accountant for many years passed on.
Marty violated the ethical code of his profession. He acted as a confidant of Betty, our father’s wife, while working whit you to undermine her effort to get help withbmoving to a retirement home. This was na obvious conflict of interest. In effect he spied on Dad’s widow.
Marty perjured himself, signing an affidavit prepared by your lawyers. In that affidavit Marty claimed that heand I had numerous conversations by telephone. These never happened. He also swore to events bewtwqeen you and I that he could never have seen.
Marty and you violated Massachisetts laws by taking fees as executors. As I rfemeber this amounted ot $90,000.
Marty and his son literally ransacked Dad’s office to remove records in violation of the laws and rules regulating physicians records. The indiscriminate ransacking may also have destroyed materials that belogn with Dad’s WWII heritage. I assume you do know that the ransacking was videotaped?
He somehow lost track of binds that belonged to Betty, Dad’s wife, after you began your crusade against her.
He made at least one distribution that apparently only favored you (and Bill/Steph) and then refused ot explain the way eh had made the distribution.
I will edit and correct the reference to Elena,
I have sent Stephen a request to delete this diatribe and the related postings at Facebook, and to apologize for this totally uncalled-for harangue against not only myself, but my synagogue. To date, he has done neither.
Besides the venom and hatefulness, this posting is replete with misstatements and outright lies. It is nearly impossible to list them all, but here are several obvious ones:
* “This evi [sic] leffort [sic] extended to trying to get a court to name them as defendant [sic] in the court case [which you initiated against your sibs, and later lost] even though they had no roles n [sic] what me [sic] brother did to these picture [sic].” You know very well that I had absolutely no influence on the court’s request to name your adult children as defendants; the judge had requested they be named — well over a year before she threw out your complaint.
* “Bill Quick has engaged in a slanderous campaign . sending hundreds of emails to my university.” Assuming you continued with your FOI requests to UW, you are probably aware that the total number of e-mails that I sent the UW was eleven, not “hundreds,” and included multiple efforts to follow up on earlier unanswered messages. I will forward them to you, if you wish.
* Your attacks against KKBE, the synagogue that your sister (my wife) and I attend are outstandingly bizarre and hurtful. How could you begin to claim that events of hundreds of years ago are equivalent to KKBE’s recent history — our rabbi delivering the invocation at the Charleston Nine’s memorial service; her participation in the Charleston Area Justice Ministry; KKBE members participating in the NAACP’s march from Selma (http://dreammarcheson.com/) that you have previously belittled, and indeed the memorial service you so ignorantly denigrate: it was not just a moving presentation by a Jewish physician whose father had been a Nazi, but a celebration of Holocaust survivors, some of whom, accompanied by Charleston’s leaders (including Charleston’s mayor), lit candles in remembrance of those who died.
You owe your sibs an apology for your hurtful behavior filing multiple losing and expensive lawsuits against your father’s estate and your sibs, your hurtful behavior in repeatedly posting false and malicious diatribes on the internet, your repeated deliberate misstatements about your father’s participation in World War II (e.g., that Robert was Eisenhower’s poison gas expert), and that you return to the Estate the WWII materials that you have purloined so that they can be donated to an academic institution that can preserve them and make them available for present and future generations of Holocaust students and scholars. And let your brother Hugh, the executor of the estate, do so without interference from you — you know very well you poisoned the prior attempted donation to Brandeis by you and your wife meeting with Brandeis representatives without the knowledge of the estate in an attempt to develop a side deal for you to commercially profit from the donated materials. And come clean and send us the details about your meeting with Judy Cohen of the USHMM before the Agreements were developed — you never have admitted you and your family met with her before those agreements were developed. Nor that you corresponded with Ms Cohen after the Agreements were signed — in which you agreed not to contact her! Oh, and return to the estate the 984+ photos that you surreptitiously took of the WWII materials (e.g.,
http://handbill.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/WWII-Schwartz-Estate-Memorabilia-984.png
— the readers of this e-mail should note the clarifying label you placed on this file).
Again, I request that you take down this post and the associated Facebook postings, and issue an apology.
REPLY TO BILL:
Well, your comments are not new. They have been answered before. It is best to focus:
The central issue remains, you along with your wife, Hugh, and his wife are intentionally destroying a valuable record from Buchenwald.
The Buchenwald issue should have been simply resolved., All Hugh had to do was select an institution with Steph’s and my agreement and the convey the gift. I offered to include any relevant materials in my possession, including items given by mt Dad before his death.
Let me simplify matters. I also note, all of this is part of a formal record
1. Hugh is under a contract.
2. He first violated that contract by lying about his claims about the USHMM, The Director of the Museum never chose Brandeis.
3. Hugh , with Steph, chose Brandeis with no consultation with me.
4. Your wife violated the contract by contacting the Director of Photography at the USMMM. I did not, contrary to your claim, participate in any of these discussions with Director Cohen although she and I have since communicated.
5. Similarly, my discussions with Brandeis were all supportive, dealing only with Brandeis’ interests, Brandeis’policies of fair access and Brandeis’ expertise in preservation of such materials. You received a draft of my only written communication and know of my agreement to allow Brandies to disclose any records they have of communications with me.
6. After choosing Brandeis, Hugh and Steph, not me and not Brandeis, reneged on the agreement as written by the University and as revised into a formal contract by an attorney of their choice, Janet Linn.
7. Hugh, along with Mr, Miasserian, further violated both the contract and their obligations as executors to protect estate assets by refusing to inventory the materials and improperly storing them. Given their fragility and the time since he took possession, it is likely that damage has now been done.
8. By explicitly threatening to destroy the materials and refusing any inspection of the materials for the last three years Hugh has had them in his possession, Hugh has created a reasonable fear that he has damaged the materials or possibly disposed of them. He has refused ot stipulate that the materials still exist or even disclose where he is holding them.
9. In support of the reasonableness of this fear, I note also that Hugh did destroy Dad’s medical records, including any records pertinent to the WWII story. He did this aganst my urgins and without inspecting the materials as required by HIPAA and recommended by the Massachusdetts board of medical registration.
10. Hugh also, has never collected three boxes of estate materials left behind at River Street despite knowing where the materials were.
The issues of your Temple would not be related to anything about the Buchenwald story except that you have made quite hypocritical statements about the KKBE synagogue, celebrating its current status. Likely I would never have read so much about the Temple, if it were not for you.
Let me be clear, I have no doubt that your Rabbi is sincere and assume she has all good intent when invited to speak after the Charleston massacre. However, I believe in not only taking credit but accepting responsibility for both the good and that bad things Jews have done. Accepting the sad role of Charleston’s Jews in slavery, fundiong the Confederacy, in the creation of the KKK , and promoting Jim Crow is not as easy as going on a bus trip to commemorate the Selma march.
I also suggest that my Black friends will find your discussion of KBBH and the role of its Rabbi to be rather self serving in a city where the dmaned flag still flies.