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[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Buchenwald’
February 15th, 2014 - 4:53 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 21: Five years and seven months after my father’s death
Five and a half years after my father’s death, my brother Hugh Schwartz and his co-executor Martin Miasserian, still refuse to allow my father’s pictures to be preserved and made public. The pictures, as described elsewhere on THE Ave, were made when then Captain Robert Schwartz, along w[...]
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 - 4:13 pm § in Misc.
Elling Kvamme Is Alive
I have just learned that Elling Kvamme is alive, at least he was as of a month ago! Professor Kvammel is 93 and now leads the Buchenwald survivors. http://translate.google.fr/translate?hl=en&sl=no&u=http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/12/det-var-eit-under-at-me-overlevde.html&prev=/[...]
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[...]
February 3rd, 2014 - 10:44 am § in Misc.
Legal Thuggery: The NFL and Copyright Claims
A Relative of Mine Offered to Sell Me a Tape of the Superbowl: Should I report him to the FBI? No. Corporate lawyers use thuggery to restrict use of copyright materials. The law does not support them, but who has the money to sue the NFL? This same relative, oddly, is part of the effort [&hell[...]
January 21st, 2014 - 5:06 pm § in Misc.
Buchenwald 17: Anniversary of the final solution
Another Horrid Anniversary On January 21, Theodor Dannecker, associate to Eichmann wrote “In accordance with the will of the Fuhrer, the Jewish question within the part of Europe ruled or controlled by Germany is after the war to be subjected to a final solution (einer endgultigen Losung).&#[...]
January 10th, 2014 - 3:39 am § in Misc.
On Shabbat: A Story of Teshuvah .. Redemption
Holocaust Survivor Meets Her Liberator Nearly 70 Years Later The Star-Ledger | By Naomi Nix of the Star Ledger in New Jersey Reports Tonight my wife will light Shabbat candles. After they are lit we will wish “Shabbat Shalom” to each other, to our guests and to Marsha Kr[...]
January 2nd, 2014 - 1:07 pm § in Hypocrisy
BUCHENWALD 16: Comments by Edward R Murrow
If I have offended you by this rather mild account of Buchenwald, I’m not in the least sorry… Today is my birthday. This birthday is very sad because of the fight in my family, a fight that makes even Jan 1 a sour day. Some in my family have taken offence at my postings about […[...]
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[...]