Ken Waltzer added 4 new photos. Intersectionality this! African American soldiers in the 183rd Combat Engineers battalion were at Buchenwald a few days after liberation seventy-one years ago. William A. Scott, Reconnaissance Sergeant, from Morehouse College, the son of the founder of the Atlanta Wor[...]
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June 14th, 2016 - 11:01 pm § in Misc.
Buchenwald 125: The children survive.
Many Buchenwald boys who went to Palestine enlisted in the Palmach and fought in Israel’s War of Independence. This is one story. Ken Waltzer FACEBOOK Yet another Buchenwald boy who went to British Mandate Palestine and fought in the Palmach-Majer Fruchter, b. 1927, Cresunesti, Romania. F[...]
June 3rd, 2016 - 11:55 pm § in Misc.
Buchenwald 124: A Survivor Who Should have the Chance to See My Father’s Pictures
Israel Meir Lau. Palestine, 1945. Rabbi Lau is still alive, now in Tel Aviv. He is one of the most important people I want to see the pictures my brother is trying to destroy. Why does Hugh Schwartz refuse to allow the pictures to be saved and shared? Has he destroyed them?[...]
May 29th, 2016 - 9:22 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 122: Interview with a survivor.
Ken Waltzer FACEBOOK My friend Julius Maslovat was, at 2 and 1/2, the youngest child in Buchenwald. He arrived from Piotrkow on December 2, 1944 and, after a month was separated from his father and sent in early January 1945, on a train with 11 other Piotrkower, plus 10 Hungarian Jewish boys, to [...]
May 22nd, 2016 - 8:59 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 121: A Grandchild Celebrates
· Sheb Naches from Ken Waltzer on FACEBOOK: Mor Stern was a Buchenwald boy in Kinderblock 66 who went with the boys to France after liberation and came to Detroit. Brad Isakson, his grandson, today graduates from Michigan State University with double majors in IR and History, and a minor in Jewish [...]
May 20th, 2016 - 12:22 pm § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 120: a survivor
Ken Waltzer FACEBOOK Naftali Furst attending 71st liberation ceremony at Buchenwald in Weimar, Germany April 2016. Naftali (with his partner Tova here) serves on the International Camp Committee at Buchenwald. He and his late brother, ages 13 and 12, respectively, arrived on a death march and ope[...]
May 10th, 2016 - 8:38 am § in Misc.
On Buchenwald and Hypocrisy by Bill Quick
Bill Quick on Buchenwald I have asked Stephen Schwartz to remove this vile and hate-filled commentary from his website but instead he adds additional lies and invective. Sorry to have to post this on my Facebook page, but I’ve simply had it with my babbling and bothersome brother-in-law. If p[...]
April 28th, 2016 - 9:09 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD: After 70 years of searching for my family we were separated from in the Holocaust, we finally found them!
Words cannot explain what I feel right now. My grandpa’s brother escaped to Russia from Poland in 1939 right before the Holocaust started. After my grandpa survived Auschwitz, he spent his entire life trying to find out what happened to his brother. My mom Michelle Belz Katz wrote to the Red C[...]
April 27th, 2016 - 9:05 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 116: Why can’t my brother understand why I want to share my Dad’s pictures of the camp with the survivors he met there?
We are still in court. I share the pain of these children. I am not a survivor, nor was my father. My Dad, Robert, however, was one of the first Americans to see the camps; he entered Buchenwald as commanding officer of a small medical company and made pictures. Robert Schwartz would wake [...]