(from Vox) When Lacey Schwartz was accepted to Georgetown University, the school saw her photo and passed her name along to the black student association. The organization contacted her. The only issue: Schwartz had grown up in a Jewish household in Woodstock New York, and had always — despite[...]
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Sunday Revelations: The day after Yom Kippur .. and the Schwartz Family Feud
This is the 22nd post about Yom Kippur since The Ave began. Yesterday was Yom Kippur, the last day of a period of eight days called the days of awe .. starting with the Jewish New Year .. Rosh Hoshana and end of eight days, a period where Jews are supposed to reflect on […][...]
April 12th, 2014 - 9:50 pm § in
SCHWARTZ FAMILY HAGGADAH
Schwartz Family Haggadah Schwartz Family Haggadah, revised 2003 In 1969, Arthur Waskow published a new Haggadah in Ramparts magazine. This Haggadah, motivated by the death of Martin [...]
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[...]
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[...]
Child Pornography, the Schwartz Family Feud and Australia
UPDATED FROM Feb 9, 2014 TO REFLECT NEWS ABOUT CHILD PROSTITION IN BRAZIL AND A CONTACT WITH SOMEONE CLAIMING TO BE CHLOE BARTRAM My brother in law accuses me of “using pictures of children who are in beauty contests as illustrations of supposed child prostitutes” My brother in law (belo[...]
May the Schwartz Be With You …
The Ancestors of the Schwartz Family Were Black People! Years ago, my grandmother, Bubbie Perlmutter, told me that our family name was not “Schwartz” but “Negri.” This Latin name made some sense since I had grown up being told that we were immigrants from a group of Jews w[...]
An End of Passover Letter to Hugh Schwartz, Bill Quick About The Logo
Dear Hugh and Bill Happy Pesach. I am writing to you as Passover ends about two matters I know you both care about: Israel and the misuse of the UW logo. I have written a lot her about your efforts to prevent my father’s experiences in Buchenwald, his amazing writings and pictures, from co[...]