Quotes about Concentration camps

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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
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
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
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