Quotes from Richard Lourie

You know who Anne Frank is?' I asked. 'Of course,' he said, as if I had offended his intelligence and Dutch pride. 'When they came to get her, they went right to her hiding place.' 'I know.' 'And that means someone betrayed her.' 'But who did it?' he said. 'You.

Who are the Communists?" "Russians who want to take away everything you have and work you like a slave.

so then we had to find Jews to turn in so my father wouldn't die.

Then I heard it again. Like a baby crying. Maybe the police had come and arrested the Jews so fast that they hadn't taken the baby. Or maybe they just didn't take babies; what good were they in labor camp?