Quotes about Holocaust

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...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the w — John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. — Yehuda Bauer
If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, wil — Anne Frank
Public truth telling is a form of recovery, especially when combined with social action. Sharing traumatic experiences w — Lawrence N. Powell, Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana
Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so te — Anne Frank
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessa — Christopher Hitchens
I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me. — Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
Again, a conversation with the doctor. We always come back to the same point: "The church may not mix in politics." he s — Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
(Thinking while being interrogated by the Germans) You big shots think you can decide on my life, but I have news for yo — Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
By the end of the war, I could pick out Jewish people almost as if I had a sixth sense about it, even if they had blue e — Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
Yesterday the paper had a "short" summary of the places where Jews are not allowed! I can better mention where they are — Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed r — Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who stop to conside — Primo Levi
Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, — Ellen Brazer, Clouds Across the Sun
We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new — Carol Matas, Daniel's Story
Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell th — Jane Yolen
Summer came.For the book thief, everything was going nicely.For me, the sky was the color of Jews.When their bodies had — Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
My faceless neighbor spoke up:“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the cl — Elie Wiesel, Night
Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people — Heinrich Heine
Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don't want to part from — Isaac Bashevis Singer, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now