Sir Peter Ustinov
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
Elie Wiesel
Auschwitz und auch Hiroshima und seine Todesengel beruhen auf eineinhalbtausendjährigen erlauchten theologischen Traditionen der Kirche.
Friedrich Heer
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
Primo Levi
Die Judenvernichtung ist ein zutiefst absurdes, widersinniges Phänomen, weil Hitler damit auch zu seinem eigenen Untergang beitrug. Warum tat er es? Wir wissen es nicht.
Joachim Fest
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.
Anne Frank
Es liegt jetzt an euch, und wir werden euch dabei unterstützen - dass meine Vergangenheit nicht zu eurer Zukunft wird.
Elie Wiesel
What exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?
John Boyne
In Rom sah ich im Ghetto, dass noch nicht aller Tage Abend ist.
Ingeborg Bachmann
Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
Yehuda Bauer
Nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben, ist barbarisch.
Theodor W. Adorno
There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. Drive out despair, and you will keep death away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity. And now, a prayer - or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive.
Elie Wiesel
Nur mit der Erinnerung an den Holocaust könnte ich nicht leben.
Ignatz Bubis
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel
Lise Meitner
Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. 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. Who knows, it might even be our religion from which the world and all peoples learn good, and for that reason and that reason alone do we have to suffer now. We can never become just Netherlanders, or just English, or representatives of any country for that matter; we will always remain Jews, but we want to, too.
Anne Frank
Nun ist es an der Zeit, aus dem Schatten der Geschichte herauszutreten.
Franz Josef Strauß
We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.
Elie Wiesel
Wer sich nicht an die Vergangenheit erinnert, ist dazu verdammt, sie zu wiederholen.
George Santayana
Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.
Elie Wiesel
Die Deutschen müssen sich zwei Fragen in jeder Generation, in jedem Jahrzehnt aufs Neue stellen: Warum konnte das Gewaltverbrechen, warum konnte der Holocaust gerade in Deutschland geschehen? Oder anders herum gefragt: Warum konnte Hitler, warum konnte eine staatliche Rassenpolitik nicht verhindert werden?
Peter Reichel
The question shouldn't be "Why are you, a Christian, here in a death camp, condemned for trying to save Jews?' The real question is "Why aren't all the Christians here?
Joel C. Rosenberg
Aus der Geschichte kann man nichts lernen außer der Einsicht, daß sich der Mensch und die Gesellschaften ändern können, langsam oder schnell.
Henry Rousso
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.
Jane Yolen
Das Geheimnis der Erlösung ist die Erinnerung.
Talmud
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...
Elie Wiesel
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