Bob Brannon, husband to Schwartz niece Edi Schwartz Brannon, says the 94-year-old former president of The Popular department store died at his El Paso home Friday after a long illness.
The El Paso Times reports The Popular closed in 1995 after 93 years in business.
Schwartz was with the 104th Infantry Division when it entered Germany's Nordhausen concentration camp in 1945 and was confronted by more than 3,000 corpses and 750 starving survivors.
In 1959, he led an Anti-Defamation League effort that led to a 1962 city ordinance ending racial segregation.
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