Ken Waltzer FACEBOOK Naftali Furst attending 71st liberation ceremony at Buchenwald in Weimar, Germany April 2016. Naftali (with his partner Tova here) serves on the International Camp Committee at Buchenwald. He and his late brother, ages 13 and 12, respectively, arrived on a death march and ope[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hugh Schwartz’
May 10th, 2016 - 8:38 am § in Misc.
On Buchenwald and Hypocrisy by Bill Quick
Bill Quick on Buchenwald I have asked Stephen Schwartz to remove this vile and hate-filled commentary from his website but instead he adds additional lies and invective. Sorry to have to post this on my Facebook page, but I’ve simply had it with my babbling and bothersome brother-in-law. If p[...]
BUCHENWALD 113 What it means to be a Jew
Today is the third day of Passover. Yesterday we celebrated our first seder at 9AM in Seattle, sharing it with our children who live in Oslo at their time for a second seder! The Haggadah we use is unique, written by my wife, my children and myself over the four decasdes since the assassination o[...]
April 18th, 2016 - 10:17 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 112 The survivors die while my brother destroys my Dad’s heritage
95-Year-Old Sobibor Concentration Camp Survivor Dies As the camps receded into the memory of memories and no one survives, my Dad’s heritage will be destroyed. The latest event is yet another confrontation in court where, rather than addressing my request for the urgent transfer of the materi[...]
April 16th, 2016 - 12:15 pm § in Misc.
Buchenwald 111: A dialog with Bill Quick on FACEBOOK
Bill Quick It’s sad that you’re so full of hate. Stephen Schwartz Why do you think I hate? Frankly, if you mean the family conflict, I feel anger and hurt, not hate. I would still do anything I could to help my siblings, despite the huge damage they have done to my family. Stephe[...]
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 - 11:28 am § in Misc.
Fair Use Doctrine and William Quick
I just received a vituperative phone call from William Quick. He used several obscenities to yell at me because I used a picture from his website, a picture of my sister Stephanie, to illustrate a story about his wife’s actions to destroy my father’s heritage from Buchenwald. He thr[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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 [...]