36 Quotes About Holocaust-literature

This is hell. Today, in our times, hell must be like this. A huge, empty room: we are tired, standing on our feet, with a tap which drips while we cannot drink the water, and we wait for something which will certainly be terrible, and nothing happens and nothing continues to happen.

They brought me tea and toast; the tea was undrinkable, but the kindness was touching.

They. His own superiors became “they” to him. The alien side, the hostile side. Somehow, in the middle of this war, he switched fronts without realizing it fully.

We did not speak of what we had seen. At the time, to speak of it seemed worse than sacrilege: We had witnessed a thing so terrible that it acquired a dreadful holiness. It was a miracle of evil. It was not possible to say with words what we had witnessed, and so we kept it safely guarded until the time we could bring it out, and show it to others, and say, 'Behold. This is the worst thing man can do'.

I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal.

Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.

Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple.

Maybe you're just wandering around out here with your thumb up your ass, waiting for some answer that might let you off the hook.

Our backyard looked like a marketplace. Valuable objects, precious rugs, silver candlesticks, Bibles and other ritual objects were strewn over the dusty grounds- pitiful relics that seemed never to have had a home. All this under a magnificent blue sky.