My Brother Hugh Seems to REALLY Care About the Husky Logo So much love for the UW from a guy who went to a school that has no football team and a big eyed owl as its logo! This seemed extraordinary! Now my brother can get obsessive and Hugh’s concern was so great that he […][...]
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February 13th, 2014 - 4:42 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 20: What Robert Schwartz Must Have Seen as He Entered Buchenwald
This awful picture was taken by the great photo journalist Margaret Bourke White. She made the image when she arrived as a Life photographer with Patton for the official liberation, several days after the camp had been liberated by American soldiers including my father, the first medic to come to [...]
February 11th, 2014 - 10:24 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 19: Survivors who may have seen Robert Schwartz
My Father’s WWII Pictures Are Still Dying in His Lawyers’ Safe. As we approach the 69th anniversary of my father’s entry onto Buchenwald to provide medical care, the survivors who might be able to identify themselves from his pictures continue to die of old age. As a pathologist, I[...]
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[...]
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[...]
August 1st, 2016 - 7:39 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 130: More Buchenwald Boys
More Buchenwald boys Ken Waltzer FACEBOOK More Buchenwald boys who went to Mandate Palestine after liberation from the Nazi camps and who, after a time at the Magdiel Agricultural School, enlisted in the Palmach and fought in 1948 for national independence. Tracking Buchenwald boys who went[...]
July 19th, 2016 - 1:18 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 129: Who is this boy?
Among other Buchenwald youths (Ken Waltzer from FACEBOOK) Congresswoman Claire Booth Luce interviewed while visiting Buchenwald was “an emaciated 6 1/2 year old boy,” who she thought had been picked up in Paris after curfew and who had been at Buchenwald for a considerable time. The [...]
Who Is A Jew? Schwartz Pride and the Nobel Prizes!
So, who won this years Nobel Prizes in Biology and Chemistry? Based on their names and, for two, origins in Israel, five of the six are Jews! Why do I take pride in this? On October 1, a poll released by the Pew Research Center revealed that over 60 percent of American Jews consider Judaism [&he[...]