Quotes about Holocaust

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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
All our ancestors were murdered, murderers, complicit to murder, or combating murder. — Lucy Knisley, An Age of License: A Travelogue
People who mock incidents in history such as 9/11 or the Holocaust, referring to it all as a hoax or stirring up crazy c — Rebecca McNutt
The death camps seem easier to comprehend if we put them all into the basket of one vast generalization, which the term — Ruth Klüger, Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
In class I was out of place because I could so easily be distracted from concepts by metaphors and facts. Clearly, I was — Ruth Klüger, Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another. — André Aciman
I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal. — Ralph Webster, A Smile in One Eye: a Tear in the Other
I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us. — Ralph Webster, A Smile in One Eye: a Tear in the Other
I became a Libertarian as a result of researching WWII and the Holocaust. Individual liberty is sacred. — A.E. Samaan
Past is PrologueThis book was written observing the premise that the seeds of Holocaust denial take root and prosper wit — A.E. Samaan, From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848
We are laying the foundation for some new, monstrous civilization. Only now do I realize what price was paid for buildin — Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Surely it is foolish to hate facts. The struggle against the past is a futile struggle. Acceptance seems so much more li — Leon Wieseltier, Kaddish
Two hundred generations of European Jews. All gone, just as if they'd never been. It was the first time it was really re — Rosemary Edghill, The Sword of Maiden's Tears
Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for. — Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
But miracles still happen, even if we don't think they do. — Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
I felt peace, even though I was still scared to death. I thought that, whatever would happen to me - I could still be ki — Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
To me it was real war and my life was at stake, and I believe that all those clandestine spy games we played as children — Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
They thought we were stupid to do it, (hide Jews) of course; in fact, it was beyond their comprehension that we would ri — Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
O Father, console them and please spare our country from that terrible disaster, not because we are any better but only — Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
When I began writing, I did not realize that the Holocaust would become a critical part of the story. During and after W — Helene Uhlfelder, Secrets & Deceptions: A Three-Generation Mystery