Quotes About Holocaust

I've met many Holocaust survivors who find the era infinitely compelling because they have this deep hunger to understand how it all could possibly have happened.

No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for 9/11. Such subjects overwhelm art.

The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.

I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.

Jewish Americans weren't just integrated, like other ethnic and religious groups. They also attracted a particular sympathy and admiration, rooted in Holocaust remembrance, affection for Israel, and a distinctive pride in the scope of their success.

La superviviente del holocausto Corrie Ten Boom dijo: «Si miras el mundo, te angustiarás. Si miras dentro de ti, te deprimirás. Pero si miras a Cristo, encontrarás descanso».

Carla no creía en Dios —ninguna entidad sagrada digna de tal nombre habría permitido que llegaran a existir los campos de exterminio nazis—

As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth.

Even if we, as northerners, choose to ignore this history, the victims' descendants [of the global south] will not. Muslims, like Jews, increasingly probe into and publicize their holocaust. The "deep past" already plays a significant role in the growth of Muslim sentiment toward the Christian North. It will play an important role in international affairs far into the future

Everyone knew immediately where we were. It was so insane—that moment of realization, Yes, this is an extermination camp.

We knew about the gas chambers. As soon as you arrived in Auschwitz, you knew about the gas chambers. How, I don't know. But we knew it. We saw that huge, black, smoky fire; we lived close by. We smelled the odor. You can never forget that.

Given the consistency and dimensions of his exaltation of flops, it has remained a puzzle on par with string theory how he manages to raise money for each fresh theatrical holocaust.

After Sarajevo, after Srebrenica, we know what "Never again!" means. "Never again'' simply means "Never again'' will Germans kill Jews in Europe in the 1940's. That is all it means.

Since 1945, "never again" has meant, essentially, "Never again will Germans kill Jews in Europe in the 1940s.

Since 1945, 'never again' has meant, essentially, 'Never again will Germans kill Jews in Europe in the 1940s.

he swept into Auschwitz in an open black Mercedes, driven by a chauffeur

Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.

It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.

I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I hear that particular piece by Beethoven, my eyes close and out of the darkness emerges the pale and melancholy face of my Polish comrade bidding farewell to an audience of dying men.

I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

Then the train resumed its journey, leaving in its wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb.

How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar?

At the time of the liberation of the camps, I remember, we were convinced that after Auschwitz there would be no more wars, no more racism, no more hatred, no more anti-Semitism. We were wrong. This produced a feeling close to despair. For if Auschwitz could not cure mankind of racism, was there any chance of success ever? The fact is, the world has learned nothing. Otherwise, how is one to comprehend the atrocities committed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia…

What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life—that is what is abnormal.