Quotes About Auschwitz

Nacismus je nelidský a sobecký. Je založen na nenávisti a zlu a jeho vrcholem je Osv?tim.

Avraham Hazan raconte que le plan d'évacuation des juifs d'Algérie était prêt, listes de noms à l'appui. Il aurait suffi d'un ordre pour que la légion et les commissaires de police le mettent à exécution. Recensés famille par famille, tous les juifs auraient été embarqués et conduits à Auschwitz si les Américains n'avaient pas détruit les navires. «

Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.

Distorting the history of World War II, denying the crimes of genocide and the Holocaust as well as an instrumental use of Auschwitz to attain any given goal is tantamount to desecration of the memory of the victims whose ashes are scattered here.

Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.

At Auschwitz dying was so easy. Surviving was a full time job.

One of the main reasons why Auschwitz had been chosen as the site for a large camp was good railway connections, and sprawling tracks and roads spread out in different directions. The road from the station forked in two – one way to the men's camp at Auschwitz, and the other to the women's camp at Birkenau.

Auschwitz had originally been a Polish town called O´swie?cim with 12,000 people of whom 5,000 were Jews. Most of those people had been moved out of their homes after the Germans invaded, renamed the town and built and expanded the camp across a huge area.

Q: Until you actually reached Auschwitz, you had no idea that the deportations to the East were for the purpose of extermination? A: No, I did not know this and we did not know it. We knew very well that the London radio spoke about the gas chambers, but we didn't take it at all seriously. We thought it was propaganda—we didn't believe it was really so.

When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.

None of the participants ever arrived at a clear understanding of the actual horror of Auschwitz, which is of a different nature from all the atrocities of the past, because it appeared to prosecution alike as not much more than the most horrible pogrom in Jewish history.

My visit to Auschwitz will certainly be one of the most unforgettable events of my life. It is a blot on the whole human race. It was the invention of minds so depraved and demonic that they defy any rational explanation. It reminds us of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

What could Yeshua of Nazareth have made of Martin Luther's outburst Death to the Law! which in many German Lutherans who served Hitler became Death to the Jews! The Germans would not have crucified Jesus: they would have exterminated him at Auschwitz, their version of the Temple.

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

He [Ray] was working in a tool-and-die factory in Brooklyn, but before that had drifted around, had been employed at the Studebaker plant in South Bend and also at an Omaha slaughterhouse on the kill floor. Once I asked him what that was like. You ever heard of Auschwitz?

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.

he had read von Lambert's book on terrorism, there were two pages devoted to the Arab resistance movement, von Lambert refused to call them terrorists, which didn't preclude, and he had emphasized this, that nonterrorists were also capable of atrocities, Auschwitz, for instance, was not the work of terrorists but of state employees...

What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.

All the corpses must be brought back from the work site for the evening roll call, since the count of living and dead has to match the number of men who left in the morning, to establish that nobody has escaped Auschwitz except by dying.

During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million.

It is hardest to write on the Holocaust. It had no military purpose. While everything else Hitler did could, with some strain, be fitted with some military logic, the industrialized killing of 6 million Jews and millions of others could not be. A place like Auschwitz did nothing to help with the war effort and used up massive resources, if not for food for the inmates, then for manpower, trains, and the rest. But

The Germans are not a race of psychopaths, Alma. They're normal people like you and me, but with fanaticism, power, and impunity, anyone can turn into a monster, like the SS at Auschwitz," he told his sister.