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[...]
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September 17th, 2016 - 9:56 pm § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 135
There is so much we do not know about what happened in Buchenwald. [...]
September 7th, 2016 - 1:26 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 134: “No one believed the stories about the camps. It was all propaganda until ….”
While my brother and sister continue their horrid effort to destroy my father’s heritage from the liberation of Buchenwald, Soon, no one who saw my Dad or knew him during WWII, will be alive. Now, all of the he world has lost another hero. A U.S. officer who helped liberate 2,500 Jews duri[...]
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 [...]
July 8th, 2016 - 6:16 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 128: After Liberation
A major reason for my effort to preserve my father’s heritage is my hope that survivors will remember my father and that memory wilk add a bit to the work of scholars like Ken Waltzer who are trying to resopnstruct the story of Buchenwald. From Ken’s post on FACEBOOK: Many Buchenwald boy[...]
July 3rd, 2016 - 9:23 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 127: Elie Wiesel Will Never See MY Dad’s Photographs
My heart is broken. Elie Wiesel is dead. Most of my life Elie Weisel was a second sun … a bright star in the solar system, a star that served as a center of gravity when this post-Holocaust world seemed too flawed to be endured. Elie’s death hurts so much more because my own fight s[...]