Quotes about Concentration camp

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A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in — Erich Maria Remarque, Flotsam
A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaim — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning
For a moment David was tempted to think that perhaps there were no good people at all outside concentration camps, but t — Anne Holm
Where an open war is impossible, oppression can continue quietly behind the scenes. Terrorism. Guerrilla warfare, violen — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Warning to the West
I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not that I was — Phillip Adams
Here. Here I am.You've taken everything from us, but not who we are! We still exist! One day grass will grow here and ov — Bruno Apitz, Nackt unter Wölfen
Comrades, we are going to try to cheer you up, and our sense of humor will help us in this endeavor, although the phrase — Rudolph Herzog, Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany
Isolation of catastrophic experiences. Dissociation may function to seal off overwhelming trauma into a compartmentalize — Marlene Steinberg
Some days in the camp you prayed to live; some days you prayed to die quick. Some days you didn't bother praying, knowin — Allan Dare Pearce, Hitler Burns Detroit
I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
On Good Friday last year the SS found some pretext to punish 60 priests with an hour on "the tree." That is the mildest — Jean Bernard, Priestblock 25487: a Memoir of Dachau
The first days of January 1942 brought enormous amounts of snow. The reader already knows what snow meant for the clergy — Jean Bernard, Priestblock 25487: a Memoir of Dachau
...I was there when we opened the gates. Some of these poor wretches running out were so emaciated they actually died fr — Marcus Brotherton, We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers
Most white Americans were willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the name of national security as long as they were the — Neil Nakadate, Looking After Minidoka: An American Memoir
People ask all the time what I learned in the camps. But the camps weren’t therapy. What do you think these places were? — Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
It's not unreal to me yet, though it might get that way soon. It still feels very real. And not even horrible -- the dea — Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire
Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happen in many other sit — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
I had survived the work gangs in the ghetto. Baked bread under cover of night. Hidden in a pigeon coop. Had a midnight b — Alan Gratz, Prisoner B-3087
It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. — Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Men as Victims: Challenging Cultural MythsJudith Herman’s recent treatise on “complex PTSD" (Herman, 1992) is an extreme — David Lisak