Sadly, I know that one day I will read that Rabbi Lau has passed on before I can get my father’s pictures to him. Rabbi Lau was one of the children in the camp when my father arrived. He is one of about 30 of the children who still survive. Meanwhile my brother and sister are […][...]
Posts Tagged ‘Buchenwald’
April 15th, 2016 - 9:38 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 110: I fear Hugh Schwartz has destroyed this precious heritage.
April 11th, 2016 - 11:01 pm § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 109: April 11: Buchenwald Liberated
(from Jewish Currents) Today is the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by U.S. troops in 1945. When the Americans arrived, the camp had just been seized by prisoners, some of whom had been forcibly marched there from Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen (a sub-camp of Sachs[...]
April 10th, 2016 - 9:36 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 108: William Quick attacks my father again.
From Facebook: Bill Quick to Ken Waltzer Ken Waltzer — it’s a shame that Stephen Schwartz is constantly posting half-truths and misstatements about his father and about his father’s putative role at Buchenwald both on his own blog and on Facebook. For starters, ther[...]
April 10th, 2016 - 4:17 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 107: words from the nephew of a survivor
Joe Lockard FACEBOOK My uncle George was a forward artillery spotter in the 89th Division. He was an intensely intellectual man who spoke seven languages, including German, a couple European languages, and Arabic (the army at first sent him to Princeton to study the latter). When George was assign[...]
BUCHENWALD 105: Is There Jewish Racism?
I as a darker skinned Yemenite Jew living as a minority within our community in America. Eiron Taiz Mizrachi identifies as a Genderqueer, gay, person of color and is of Yemenite Jewish heritage . (abstracted) Note: Eiron’s blog at the Times of Israel is hard to read, not the le[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Purim .. American Jewish Style
WHAT THE HECK IS PURIM? Go to a synagogue today and (if you are goyishe) you will think its a mx of Halloween and Mardi Gras .. kids trying to get candy from the rabbi,* lots of noise, adults dressed in stupefying costumes. Purim officially celebrates the triumph of Queen Esther who became the lover[...]
March 10th, 2016 - 1:22 pm § in Misc.
Book Review: Joachim Fest’s “Hitler”
History records no phenomenon like him. Ought we to call him “great”? No one evoked so much rejoicing, hysteria, and expectation of salvation as he; no one so much hate. No one else produced, in a solitary course lasting only a few years, such incredible accelerations in the pace of hist[...]
February 26th, 2016 - 12:13 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 104: Denial of slavery, Syria and the Shoah
It is All to Easy to deny Responsibility The importance of my father’s story is not just about him, it is about resisting the effort to turn personal stories of horror into sterile history .. words in books that allow our descendants to deny their responsibility for what happened or take pr[...]
February 24th, 2016 - 10:21 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 103: The voices of silence.
Anniversary of the birth of a silent Jew, March 22 Born to a Jewish family in Strasbourg, France in 1923, young Marcel Mangel discovered Charlie Chaplin at age five and became an avid fan. He entertained his friends with Chaplin imitations, and dreamed of starring in silent movies. When Marcel was 1[...]
Buchenwald 106, Another year has passed and Hugh Schwartz is still destroying the pictures of Buchenwald.
Ken Waltzer 4 new photos from Buchenwald Dear Ken, You post yesterday meant so much to me! I do not know if you have followed my story, the story of an effort by my brother Hugh Schwartz and sister, Stephanie Quick, to destroy a remarkable Buchenwald heritage? It is also 71 years since my [...]