Holocaust Quotes
John Boyne
...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.
3533Anne Frank
Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope!
1978 Anne Frank
The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?
4645 Anne Frank
If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.
3590 Yehuda Bauer
Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
2023 Tadeusz Pankiewicz
Not everyone is capable of sacrificing his own life. So it is, always has been and always will be.
2271 Primo Levi
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who stop to consider the antithesis; that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.
3042 Ellen Brazer
Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.
- Winston S. Churchill
2169 Heinrich Heine
Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people
2250 Vladimir Nabokov
Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths - until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about.
3047 Christopher Hitchens
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.
2442 Diet Eman
I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.
2184 Diet Eman
Again, a conversation with the doctor. We always come back to the same point: "The church may not mix in politics." he says. And I tell him that when you are a Christian and profess that God is almighty, there is no single area of life from which you can eliminate God. -From the diary of Diet Eman
1312 Diet Eman
(Thinking while being interrogated by the Germans) You big shots think you can decide on my life, but I have news for you: you can't touch a hair on my head without the will of God my Father, because He is on my side.
1892 Diet Eman
Yesterday the paper had a "short" summary of the places where Jews are not allowed! I can better mention where they are still aloud: "in their houses and in the streets!" God, punish those who are persecuting the people you chose and to whom Jesus also belonged. -From the diary of Diet Eman
2455 Diet Eman
By the end of the war, I could pick out Jewish people almost as if I had a sixth sense about it, even if they had blue eyes and blond hair. I would have been a very valuable Gestapo person.
4700 Diet Eman
After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery.
3200 Jane Yolen
Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. Part of her was grateful. In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped. And she knew that each day she remained alive, she remained alive. One plus one plus one. The Devil's arithmetic...
1713 Jane Yolen
Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a galaxy out of the chaos, can point to the fact that some people survived even as most people died. And can remind us that the swallows still sing around the smokestacks.
3232 Hannah Senesh
I could have been 23 next July
I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost.
4836 C.J. Sansom
Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.
3403 Corrie Ten Boom
My little hobby. Book Collecting. And yet, old friends, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive. -Bulldog
3691 Elie Wiesel
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
4226 Richard Weikart
Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the worlds greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy.
1138 Danny M. Cohen
In wartime, everyone's birthday turns into a commemoration of something so sad.
3391 Danny M. Cohen
"One could have mistakenly assumed that each train could choose its own destination. But there was no choice. The Nazi operator sat in the station booth, his hands on levers and switches, forcing each train along its given path.
2262 Wilma Gabriel Dinkha
And with every cry that escapes a childs lips.. With every piercing scream that leaves a womans mouth, and with every tear that stains a mans face, a small part of me dies each time.. Because with every drop of Assyrian blood that is spilled, I realise more and more that the blood pumping through my veins is fast becoming a 'Limited Edition
2529 Wilma Gabriel Dinkha
My DNA is not negotiable.. I will not sacrifice my dignity nor the dignity of my nation and succumb to such psychopathic dictatorship!!.. The blood in my veins spans back 7000 years.. You cannot alter my genetic makeup nor my genetic beliefs.. I am Assyrian and you cannot alter my identity no matter how many swords you place on my neck!!
3793 Wilm Hosenfeld
Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.
4969 Mary Ann Shaffer
The crematorium could not burn the bodies fast enough - so after we dug long trenches, we pulled and dragged the bodies to the edges and threw them in. You'll not believe it, but the SS forced the prisoners' band to play music as we lugged the corpses - and for that, I hope they burn in hell with polkas blaring.
1682 Dan C. Quayle
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
1353 Timothy Snyder
When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning.
1178 Michael Morpurgo
We fought back with our music; it was the only weapon we had.
3362 John Boyne
What exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?
4166 Emil Dorian
The fatigue I've gathered year after year and stored inside now heaves a muted cry of helplessness. Nothing but fatigue, rounding my shoulders, heavier than ever on this late autumn day with a useless sun, a world of unforgiving disasters. So many struggles and tragedies, so much sorrow and egotism in this dark, in this rotting century of hate.
2618 Sarah Enchanted
learning the Holocaust meant to scare you but to deepen your understanding of the world.
1272 Sarah Enchanted
Learning the Holocaust is not meant to scare you but to deepen your understanding about the world.
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