Quotes About Holocaust

In reference to four of the most notorious death camps, Snyder notes, "The 1.6 million or so Jews killed at Treblinka, Chelmni, Belzec and Sobibor were asphyxiated by carbon monoxide." At Auschwitz, the Nazis used Zyklon B hydrogen cyanide gas to kill an additional one million Jews.

This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.

On June 26, a thousand Jews were beaten to death in a garage. The SS arranged for locals to perform the massacre. They thought it might look distasteful if they carried it out themselves.

There is, however, a tipping point where loyalty to one's own tribe curdles into resentment and hatred, then aggression toward others. That's when Fascism enters the picture, trailed by an assortment of woes, up to and including the Holocaust and global war.

On June 9, 1942, R?žena Spieglová was one of a group of Czechoslovak Jews sent by rail transport to the Nazi concentration camp in Terezín. On June 12, they were transported farther east to a destination we do not know for sure, probably a forested area in occupied Poland. There were no survivors from that transport. My maternal grandmother was fifty-four years old when she was murdered.

We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?

'Son of Saul' film is extremely emotional; you're watching people walk in, you're watching people die. It centers around a child that goes into the ovens but survives the gassing.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?' He smiles. 'Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.

The Holocaust was born at the meeting point of two traditions that marked modern Western civilization: "the anti-Semitic tradition and the tradition of genocide of colonized peoples.

Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor who doubts sometimes, has written that the reason so many babies keep being born is that God loves stories. Why

For the eight thousand Italian Jews who could not be saved. For the millions taken slave by the Nazi war machine, and the countless who did not make it home. And for Robert Dehlendorf, who heard the tale first, and rescued me.

forty-nine thousand Jews in Italy at the time of the Nazi invasion, some forty-one thousand evaded arrest or survived the concentration camps.

the Nazis extorted the Jews still remaining in Rome's ghetto, demanding a payment of fifty kilos of gold in thirty-six hours in return for their safety.

They found the Jews, bound their wrists and ankles, and threw them into Lake Maggiore, where they were machine-gunned to death.

It's where they take every Jew they catch in Milan. Platform Twenty-One in the central station. They put them into cattle cars, and they disappear, bound for . . . no one knows. They don't come back.

Platform 21 was where Jews disappeared on trains heading north.

Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

Soviet conduct could be deemed less barbaric than that of the Nazis only because it embraced no single enormity to match the Holocaust.

Is there anything sadder than the scrawniest little piece of uneaten chicken at a dinner party?" "Hmm," said Jules. "Yes. The Holocaust.

Of the 1,019 prisoners sent on the last train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, Otto Frank was one of the forty-five men and eighty-two women who survived.

Of the 1,019 Jews who arrived from Westerbork on September 5, 258 men and 212 women survived the selection process. The remaining 549, among them all the children, were killed immediately after their arrival in the gas chambers of Birkenau and their bodies burned in the neighboring crematoria. All eight residents of 263 Prinsengracht survived the first round. Anne, at fifteen years and three months, was among the youngest.

One is reminded of Primo Levi's observation about the Holocaust: 'Things whose existence is not morally comprehensible cannot exist.