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[...]
March 27th, 2015 - 4:23 pm § in Uncategorized
BUCHENWALD 69: The Enlarger
Liberator or Visitor at Buchenwald? NOTE: This is a direct copy of the material posted by William Quick of his now defunct website: https://steveshit.wordpress.com/. If you click on the header above, it will bring you to the full copy along with a marginal note from me. As always, comments a[...]
February 16th, 2014 - 11:02 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 22: Treating the survivors.
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 c[...]
The Scandal of Online Education
Highline, a new online magazine from the Huffington Post has a disturbing article on the abuse of higher education by private, for profit, online education services. The author, Kevin Carey is the director of education policy program at a policy institute, New America. His key points [...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]