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 ‘Hugh Schwartz’
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 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 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 [...]