[1] Schwarcz was one of the policemen stationed at the High Commissioner's summer camp in Atlit to guard against bandits.

Schwarcz was hanged in Acre Prison on August 16, 1938, after receiving last rites from Rabbi Yehoshua Kaniel of Haifa.

My final requests of the Jewish public in this country and abroad is not to take any action likely to lead to violence and disturbance in connection with my execution.In order to prevent this opportunity from being exploited by certain persons for provocative purposes which may lead to innocent bloodshed, I wish to say that I have no connection with that movement, and my conceptions are opposed to terrorism and bloodshed.My own case I regard as a private mistake in a moment of temporary aberration.

[1] However, when Menachem Begin became Prime Minister of Israel, he added Schwarcz to the official list of Olei Hagardom.

On March 8, 2010, an article by journalist Yossi Melman in Haaretz entitled "The Battle Over the Memorialization of the Forgotten Hanged Man" reported on the attempt by veterans of the Lehi and Irgun groups to have him acknowledged as someone who had acted out of a nationalist motive and had contributed to the foundation of the State of Israel and the opposition by veterans of the Haganah.