439 Quotes About Holocaust

Live," he whispered. "For my Chaya. For all our Chayas. Live. And remember.

Sooner or later in life, everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unobtainable . . . Our ever-sufficient knowledge of the future opposes it and this is called in the one instance: hope.

I didn't know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever.

Kdyby člověk věděl, jak to skončí, chtělo by se mu vůbec začínat? Neomotal by si pupeční šňůru kolem krku, aby se uškrtil dřív, než se dostane na vzduch? Nenašel by prostředky, aby vůbec nemusel jít na start v závodě, který už předem prohrál?

Who would have thought that words could hold so much power, to stir so much hatred that it would eventually lead to genocide? I, for one, had always believed that we, the human race, were better than that.

I looked at him. He sat in the darkness, with his brows knitted tightly together, as though trying to grasp something, to understand the inconceivable, to pinpoint the moment when everything suddenly got out of control and the point of no return was officially passed by both sides – the future murderers and their victims. The new Reich sorted us into two kinds and now he suddenly found himself among those who held an ax above our miserable heads.

... so then we had to find Jews to turn in so my father wouldn't die.

Then I heard it again. Like a baby crying. Maybe the police had come and arrested the Jews so fast that they hadn't taken the baby. Or maybe they just didn't take babies; what good were they in labor camp?

He chuckles at his own joke. "No one wants the Jews. Not even America. Americans have no right to criticize us. They rounded up their Indians, you know. Put them on reservations.