Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois
Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst Robert and Waldemar
Schultze Papers Waldemar J. Schultze and Robert R. Schultze were
born to parents Jennie and Waldemar Schultze. During the early
1940s, both brothers still resided with their mother at 875
Richmond Avenue in Buffalo, New York. Unmarried, Waldemar owned
the Buffalo Radio Supply store and was employed by the
University of Buffalo, although it is unclear what he did at the
University. He was disengaged by the University in January of
1943. Robert was employed as a truck driver, and was engaged to
Helen Anne Rosen, also of Buffalo. The papers of Waldemar and
Robert Schultze chronicle the two brothers' internment as
conscientious objectors during the Second World War. Waldemar
was the first to be inducted, on October 29th, 1942 at the age
of 33. On February 5th, 1943, while being held at the
Disciplinary Barracks of Fort Niagara, he refused to wear the
military uniform, citing religious belie