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 [...]
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February 13th, 2014 - 4:42 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 20: What Robert Schwartz Must Have Seen as He Entered Buchenwald
February 12th, 2014 - 1:43 am § in Misc.
Can You Help Me Find Professor Kvamme in Olso?
I hope someone with contacts in Oslo can help me. I am trying to contact a Professor Elling Kvamme in Oslo for help with the WWII matter already discussed a lot here. , I would like to find out if Professor Kvamme is still alive. His daughter is the filmmaker Elsa Kvamme This picture of him [[...]
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 4th, 2014 - 8:25 am § in The Ave Scene
What is a VECTON?
WHAT IS A VECTON? The creativity of companies naming things is awesome. Now, an Israeli company. seems to have sold a super radar oven as something new. Is this hype? The company calls itself “Goji” as in the goji berries. I first heard about this from my brother Hugh who had an ex[...]
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[...]
May the Schwartz Be With You …
The Ancestors of the Schwartz Family Were Black People! Years ago, my grandmother, Bubbie Perlmutter, told me that our family name was not “Schwartz” but “Negri.” This Latin name made some sense since I had grown up being told that we were immigrants from a group of Jews w[...]
January 22nd, 2014 - 1:30 pm § in Hypocrisy, Politics, Religion, Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene, UW
Seattle African American-African Diaspora Gathering w/ Ed Murray
More than ever it is vital for the Black community locally as well as nationally to establish a collective set of goals to focus our energy and resources on. Historically, religion, nation of origin, sexual preference, gender, age, class, political views have all been reasons for division. What [...]
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[...]