439 Quotes About Holocaust

Escape was not our goal since it was so unrealistic. What we wanted was to survive, to live long enough to tell the world what had happened in Buchenwald.

We lived in Jewish neighborhoods. Almost everyone you saw on the street was Jewish. It was almost like being in Eretz Yisroel.

We who have come back, by the aid of many lucky chances or miracles - whatever one may choose to call them - we know: the best of us did not return.

We can no longer believe that after death, if we have sinned, we shall enter hell. Hell has been acted out here on Earth in the time of Nazi Germany, when even the innocent went in their millions to a hell that beggars the imagination. A profound change in attitude has come about as a result.

His eyes seem to see nothing. He is a man whose soul has died and whose body is waiting to catch up with it.

Did I tell you about Cilka?" "No, Lale, you didn't. Who was Cilka?" "She was the bravest person I ever met. Not the bravest girl, the bravest person.

But she -- she will live. She doesn't know why she has always been sure of that, why she feels she can persist -- keep picking up this needle even though it's as heavy as a brick, keep sewing, keep doing what she has to do -- but she can.

And you wanted to escape,' a man near me whispered to another man. 'You wanted to run off into the woods and fight. But do you see? Do you see what the rest of them think about us? These people would sell you back to the Nazis for a sack of potatoes and then toast you at their dinner table.

Rart å tenke på at en kom levende ut av dette helvete. Jeg tror det skyldes tre ting, og disse tingene måtte klaffe. En måtte være både mentalt og fysisk sterk. En måtte også ha flaks. Alt dette klaffet for meg.