439 Quotes About Holocaust

The next day Aunt Marta comes home and tells Stephie that she has been to a meeting with the pastor and that there will be no collection taken up for the benefit of Stephie's parents. Instead, the congregation will pray for them and all the other victims of the war at the prayer meeting that Saturday afternoon. From Deep Sea

But here God didn't come. We were all on our own.

It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones.

Here. Here I am.You've taken everything from us, but not who we are! We still exist! One day grass will grow here and overgrow the ruins. Or day this will be forgotten. But you... No one will ever forget you! The shame of humanity.

You kill yourself when you hate. It's the worst disease in the world.

There are no worse oppressors than those who have been oppressed themselves. For they will justify all means of self-preservation, including the persecution and oppression of others to the extent of, and worse than that they had endured. This will weigh heavily on the souls of future generations.

I want to remember my past To see before my eyes The image of my parents The house in which I grew up The village in which my family lived for generations I don't want to remember my past I fear for what my memory Might bring before my eyes I wonder whether I can continue my life If I'll rescue from oblivion What I want to recall.

All things can be donewhisper museum ovens ofa war that freedom won.

Oskar is the fruit of those fantasies -- the idea that what needed to be saved was not just lives but hope.