Quotes About History

Shakespeare was an anti-Semite

He simply could not imagine a time when being a Jew, or even a half Jew, was not a disability.

Of the estimated 12.5 million Africans sold into slavery in the Americas, more than half were sold between 1701 and 1800, and of that 52.4 percent, tens of thousands more were sold during the second half of the eighteenth century than during the first.

New England's slavers and their ships did not become part of the history of American slavery, though they wrote some of its early chapters. These men would be described in their obituaries as West Indies merchants and sea commanders.

What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.

This is the beginning of the end (talking about the war)... Everyone was saying... But the British Prime Minister said, This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Do you see the difference?

I'll show then that Anne Frank wasn't born yesterday

Fine specimens of humanity, those Germans, and to think I'm actually one of them! No, that's not true, Hitler took away our nationality long ago. And besides, there are no greater enemies on earth than the Germans and the Jews.

PS. Will the reader please take into consideration that this story was written before the writer's fury had cooled?

It seems to me that, later on, neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the chatterings of a 13-year-old schoolgirl…

Er bestaat geen grotere vijandschap op de wereld dan tussen Duitsers en joden.

Thursday, 6 January, 1944

God Save the King

let my own children read her books

Fine specimens of humanity, those Germans, and to think I'm actually one of them! No, that's not true, Hitler took away our nationality long ago. And besides, there are no greater enemies on earth than the Germans and the Jews.

Nosotros cuatro todavía estamos bien, y así hemos llegado al día de hoy, 20 de junio de 1942, fecha en que estreno mi diario con toda solemnidad.

It's not the fault of the Dutch that we Jews are having such a bad time.

Wednesday, July 7, 1943

Peter added, "The Jews have been and always will be the chosen people!" I answered, "Just this once, I hope they'll be chosen for something good!

Seriously, though, ten years after the war people would find it very amusing to read how we lived, what we ate and what we talked about as Jews in hiding. Although I tell you a great deal about our lives, you still know very little about us. How frightened the women are during air raids; last Sunday, for instance, when 350 British planes dropped 550 tons of bombs on IJmuiden, so that the houses trembled like blades of grass in the wind. Or how many epidemics are raging here.

The Knock at the Door by Ina Boudier-Bakker.

For someone like me, it is a very strange habit to write in a diary. Not only that I have never written before, but it strikes me that later neither I, nor anyone else, will care for the outpouring of a thirteen year old schoolgirl.

Bonito pueblo el alemán, y pensar que en realidad yo también pertenezco a él! Pero no, hace mucho que Hitler nos ha convertido en apátridas.

De todos modos no hay enemistad más grande en el mundo que entre los alemanes y los judíos.