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[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Buchenwald’
September 7th, 2016 - 1:26 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 134: “No one believed the stories about the camps. It was all propaganda until ….”
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 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[...]
June 29th, 2016 - 7:48 pm § in Uncategorized
BUCHENWALD 126: Black Lives Matter
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[...]
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[...]