Quotes from Isabella Leitner

Does staying alive not only for yourself, but also because someone else expects you to, double the life force? Perhaps. Perhaps. Rachel

Sometimes I was resentful. Must she care about everyone in this world? Look at me! Praise me! I want to be the most important! Why do you care so much about so many things? But now, so many years later, I say: Thank you, Mother, for being what you were, for trying to develop me in every way. Kisv

I curse you, even from the distance of these many years, for keeping me so hungry that if affected my brain and subordinated me to your evil. And my apologizes to the animals for comparing you to them, because surely animals are more humane.

The day we arrived in Auschwitz, there were so many people to be burned that the four crematoriums couldn't handle the task. So the Germans built big open fires to throw the children in.