Quotes on Holocaust

“...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.”

John Boyne

“Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.”

Yehuda Bauer

“I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.”

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.”

Diet Eman

“After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery.”

Diet Eman

The responsibility to remember is a burden we must carry.

Yehuda Bauer

The Holocaust was not just a Jewish tragedy; it was a crime against humanity.

Yehuda Bauer

What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life — that is what is abnormal.

Elie Wiesel