A letter from my brother, Hugh Schwartz. Hugh sent me this email but I see it as more a comment on posts here on TA. The mien is gentler than a lot of his emails, often they are filled with obscenities and invectives, but it does serve the purpose of letting him give his point […][...]
Posts Tagged ‘Buchenwald’
March 21st, 2014 - 9:18 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 27: Iran’s Supreme Leader Profanes Nowruz
(Zorastrian New Year) comes exactly one month before the liberation of Buchenwald. The date is especially important to me for two reasons. First, Nowruz has significance most Jews do not know about. When we went into exile in Babylon, the state religion of Babylon was Zorastrianism. Many as[...]
March 19th, 2014 - 3:08 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 26: Jews still segregated after Buchenwald liberated
Today is one month before April 19, 1945, 11 days after my father entered Buchenwald to give medical care. The camp had already been liberated by communist political prisoners before any allied forces arrived. Even after the camp was officially liberated by US forces, Jews were still segregat[...]
March 16th, 2014 - 2:32 pm § in Hypocrisy
30 Days Till Passover
Today is the first day of Purim and the 30th day before Passover. Why do I say “day?” Jewish days begin at sundown, so today is Purim, but it began last night. We are also 30 days before Passover, two holidays that could nto be more different than anything in the dominant Christian cu[...]
March 4th, 2014 - 10:25 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 25: Buchenwald Survivors as of 2013
Last year, 2013, Reuters photographer Lisi Niesner interviewed some of the remaining survivors as they returned to Buchenwald to mark the , 68 years later anniversary of the liberation. We are now one month from the anniversary of Robert Schwartz Entering the camp and my brother, Hugh Schwartz, s[...]
February 27th, 2014 - 10:11 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: NAZI PORN FOR SALE IN LA
‘Mein Kampf’ Signed By Hitler Up For Auction In LA LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” is one of the most racist and heinous screeds in modern history, but officials say two rare early editions signed by him could go for more than $20,000 at an online au[...]
February 25th, 2014 - 11:23 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 24: Through the eyes of Margarette Bourke White
The great photographer Margaret Bourke White 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 the aid of these prisoners. . This picture[...]
February 19th, 2014 - 5:14 pm § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 23: Anniversary of another death
Paul-Émile Janson served as the 30th Prime Minister of Belgium in 1937–1938. In the early part of the Second World War, Janson served as Foreign minister, and as minister with portfolio, in the government of Hubert Pierlot. He remained in France when the government in exile moved to London. In 19[...]
February 17th, 2014 - 9:26 am § in Misc.
William Quick, the troll
Feeding a Troll The Ave does not get a lot of comments, but my brother in law, William Quick, seems to be single handedly posting comments intended, I assume, to disparage me. The essence of his comments is that I am some sort of mentally ill person engaged in an effort to defame my brother [&he[...]
More Family Feud. UPDATES
I am only posting this to give readers a taste of the sort of email I get most days from my brother Hugh Schwartz and his amanuensis William Quick. In the last two days alone, I have received 31 emails from them! That is more than one an hour! In the meantime, we are 16 days […][...]