Auschwitz Quotes - Page 2

• I'm not alive. People believe memories grow vague, are erased by time, since nothing endures against the passage of time. That's the difference; time does not pass over me, over us. It doesn't erase anything, doesn't undo it. I'm not a live. I died in Auschwitz but no one knows it.

  Charlotte Delbo

  Memories, Believe, Differences

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• The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.

  Ariel Sharon

  Taught Us, Holocaust, Lessons

  "We must rely on ourselves, says Sharon" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2005.

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• I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

  David Irving

  Mistake, Made, Said

  "Historian David Irving Gets Three Years in Holocaust Denial Case", www.foxnews.com. February 20, 2006.

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• Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Writing, Suffering

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• It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

  Theodor Adorno

  "How Poetry Can Be Written After Auschwitz" by Billy Mills, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2011.

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• I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us. Perhaps we shall have to colonise the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

  R. J. Hollingdale

  Death, Stars, Science

  "RJ Hollingdale" by Carol Diethe, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2001.

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• Jealousy - the Auschwitz of emotions.

  Christopher Titus

  Emotion

  "Christopher Titus: Love Is Evol". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• . . . since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot be ruled out for tomorrow, it is-beyond being a duty-also fear. Every morning when I get up I can read the Auschwitz number on my forearm, something that touches the deepest and most closely intertwined roots of my existence; indeed I am not even sure if this is not my entire existence. Then I feel approximately as I did back then when I got a taste of the first blow from a policeman's fist. Every day anew I lose my trust in the world.

  Jean Amery

  Morning, Mean, Blow

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• My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad became the town doctor and I was born.

  Julie Salamon

  Country, Dad, War

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• Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.

  W. H. Auden

  Christmas, Friday, Easter

  "Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry". Book by Anthony Hecht, p. 135, 2005.

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• Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Prayer, Men, Our Generation

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.102, Beacon Press

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• Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

  Edward Bond

  Humanity, Literature, Chairs

  "Still bolshie after all these years" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2000.

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• In Germany, people are saying, "George W. Bush is an asshole. Osama Bin Laden is an asshole." But then I make jokes about Auschwitz, and how the Germans are lederhosen-wearing sausage freaks - and they hate me for this! And I'm like, "You all are sitting there because you want to relax and have a nice evening, and now you're pissed because I put also a mirror in front of you."

  Uwe Boll

  Hate, Nice, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets.

  Meir Kahane

  Knives, Enemy, Election

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• Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

  Theodor Adorno

  Writing, Poetry, Barbaric

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.15, Stanford University Press

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• But there's something about the simplicity of Auschwitz... there's just nothing. There's just photographs, there's a room full of limbs, a room full of hair, and then you go into the place where the gas chambers were. You walk down these halls and the efficiency of it is so inhuman. The place is so powerful, just for its utter bald, bare simplicity.

  David Heyman

  Powerful, Simplicity, Photograph

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Money, Men, Technology

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• There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Israel, Agony, Holocaust

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• What I've learned about comedy people is that they're defined by the harshest level they've been to, their personal Auschwitz.

  Bob Saget

  People, Levels, Comedy

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• I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Ministry, Berlin, Lectures

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.12, Souvenir Press

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• I died in Auschwitz, but no one knows it

  Charlotte Delbo

  Died, Knows

  Charlotte Delbo, Rosette C. Lamont (1997). “Auschwitz and After”, p.267, Yale University Press

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• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Leadership, Being Happy

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Hatred, Victim

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

  Romain Gary

  Jewish History

  "A Chameleon on Show" by Benjamin Ivry, forward.com. January 12, 2011.

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• One day in Auschwitz I became so dispirited that I couldn't carry on. They had given me a beating, which wasn't exactly a pleasant experience. It was on a Sunday, and I said: 'I can't get up'. Then my comrades said: 'That's impossible, you have to get up, otherwise you're lost'. They went to a Dutch doctor, who worked with the German doctor. He came to me in the barracks and said: 'Get up and come to the hospital barracks early tomorrow morning. I'll talk to the German doctor and make sure you are admitted'. Because of that I survived.

  Otto Frank

  Morning, Sunday, Doctors

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