5 Quotes by Tadeusz Pankiewicz

The Nazis not only had subtle ways of destroying human life and dignity, they were equally good at desecrating the graves of the dead ― something that is held sacred and ring-fenced with care within the culture of every single tribe and nation in the world.

Not everyone is capable of sacrificing his own life. So it is, always has been and always will be.

These small examples are incontrovertible proof of what blind, organised hatred can lead to, and of just how low standards of human morality can fall.

Those without first-hand experience of these terrifying scenes cannot begin to comprehend the circumstances in which the people in the ghetto lived; they cannot understand the perfidious lies that were used to deceive them on the eve of their deaths.

I am often asked by my Polish friends if the Jews were so blind that they didn’t realise what lay ahead of them... Only people who weren’t there, and who didn’t witness these events at firsthand, can ask such questions, because they do not have a complete picture of what it was like.