Sadly, I know that one day I will read that Rabbi Lau has passed on before I can get my father’s pictures to him. Rabbi Lau was one of the children in the camp when my father arrived. He is one of about 30 of the children who still survive. Meanwhile my brother and sister are […][...]
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April 15th, 2016 - 9:38 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 110: I fear Hugh Schwartz has destroyed this precious heritage.
BUCHENWALD 30: Hugh Schwartz
Hugh is my younger brother. Unfortunately a bad case of sibling rivalry has led him to do some pretty outrageous things including writing very disturbing things, claiming that I hate my father and am out to destroy Hugh. He has also charged me with theft and being mentally ill. None of that is[...]
April 5th, 2017 - 10:55 am § in Uncategorized
BUCHENWALD 144: 72 Years later and my brother is still trying to destroy the pictures of the liberation of Buchenwald
Ken Waltzer on Facebook: The Boys of Buchenwald A group of boys in block 66 at Buchenwald were led out of the camp the day before liberation (April 10) and put on a train to nowhere, which meandered east and south until finally liberated some three weeks later near Terezin. These included many of th[...]
December 7th, 2016 - 4:52 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 141: The boys on the train.
One reason I still have some hope that some of the survivors may yet be alive to see my father’s pictures from Buchenwald is that several hundred boys were imprisoned in the camp when Dr. Robert Schwartz arrive in April 1945 with his medical company. As Ken Waltzer writes (below) 400 of the[...]
November 10th, 2016 - 3:56 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 139: The Kinder
Ken Waltzer Moshe Avital, was Buchenwald child survivor, on the train after liberation that took 427 youths to France to be cared for by the OSE (Ouvre Secours des Enfants). Later he went to British Mandate Palestine and fought in the Israel independence war. Moshe Avital continues to speak, and can[...]
October 12th, 2016 - 12:01 am § in Misc.
REPOST FROM 2015: Buchenwald on Yom Kippur
Imagine what this eve of Yom Kippur must have felt like in Buchenwald The vow taken that night … whether sung in the original Aramaic or translated into any of the languages spoken in the camp … is called “Kol Nidre.” The vow, wherever recited, would have been the same: A[...]
September 28th, 2016 - 9:29 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 137: Another memory dies
BERLIN — Max Mannheimer, who survived Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Dachau and devoted his last decades to admonishing later generations of Germans that while they carried no guilt for the Nazis’ crimes, they bore a responsibility to ensure that they never happen again, died on Sept. 23 in Munic[...]
August 23rd, 2016 - 9:31 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 133: As the Survivors fade, remembering the children
Ken Waltzer added 4 new photos. A tale of two Buchenwald boys. Israel Granatstein born 1930 from Piotrkow was in the Hortensja glass factory, then in Czestochowa, Brought to Buchenwald in January 1945, he was soon in Kinderblock 66. He talks about Gustav, the deputy blockelder, in his testimony. Gra[...]
August 9th, 2016 - 10:44 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 132: On Elie Wiessel and Bill Quick
On FACEBOOK: Bill Quick responding to a post about Buchenwald: “It is so sad that Stephen continues to mislead readers with these statements. (1) There is no documentation that I am aware of that Dr. Robert Schwartz actually provided “medical care” at Buchenwald. There is a letter[...]
Buchenwald 106, Another year has passed and Hugh Schwartz is still destroying the pictures of Buchenwald.
Ken Waltzer 4 new photos from Buchenwald Dear Ken, You post yesterday meant so much to me! I do not know if you have followed my story, the story of an effort by my brother Hugh Schwartz and sister, Stephanie Quick, to destroy a remarkable Buchenwald heritage? It is also 71 years since my [...]