439 Quotes About Holocaust

L’dor v’dor, Your Honor, l’dor v’dor.”“Huh?”“It’s a Jewish thing, Your Honor, Don’t worry; I’ll be there.

Birkenau simmered in the July sun like some hideous brew, a witch's potion of blood, sweat, smoke, and excrement worthy of something the weird sisters might have cooked up in Macbeth.

Rumors are the children of truth.

There is a strange, mineral scent in the air. As soon as we enter the compound surrounded by al the granite walls, the day turns colorless, shadowless. It’s neither warm nor cold, though we shiver in our coats.

Memory, come tell a fairy taleAbout my girl who's lost and gone.Tell, tell about the golden grailAnd bid the swallow, bring her back to me.Fly close to her and ask her soft and lowIf she thinks of me sometimes with love, If she is well? Ask too before you goIf I am still her dearest, precious dove.And hurry back, don't lose your way,So I can think of other things.But you were too lovely, perhaps, to stay.I loved you once. Good-bye, my love.

I like the idea of that small rebellion, carrying a paper piece of the resistance in my shoes.

At one point Malkin and one of his colleagues took Eichmann to the toilet. They waited outside. After a few minutes, Eichmann called out to Malkin, ‘Darf ich anfangen?’ (‘May I begin?’) Only when told yes did he begin to move his bowels.The Eichmann Trial, page 17

On one occasion, when he was about to be taken from the interrogation room, he thought he was going to be shot. His knees buckled and he cried out in a pleading voice: “I have not told you everything yet".-- The Eichmann Trial, page 44

I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to me. It's a common experience for the Jewish young. Should later generations of Germans be burdened with the guilt arising from the profound inhumanity of their ancestors? Revenge may be sweet, but guilt is non-transferable. Still, hatreds survive with the persistence of cockroaches.