Holocaust Quotes - Page 2

• Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Hope, Believe

  "Voices Carry" by Alice Hoffman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.

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• Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

  Martin Niemoller

  Speaks Out, Talking, Human Rights

  Martin Niemöller (1986). “Exile in the Fatherland: Martin Niemöller's Letters from Moabit Prison”

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• The world is aware how jealously the Jewish community guards the Holocaust, both as a memory and a weapon.

  David Klinghoffer

  Memories, Community, World

  "Our Role in Promoting Holocaust Denial". The Jewish Daily Forward, December 30, 2005.

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• We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

  Abba Kovner

  Freedom, Taken, Patriotic

  "Freedom fighters" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.

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• Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Night, Soul

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.55, Macmillan

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• I had to help them. There was no choice.

  Oskar Schindler

  Choices, Helping

  Interview at Am Hauptbahn No. 4 in Frankfurt Am Main, West Germany, 1964.

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• Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We underestimated the bestiality of the enemy; we overestimtaed the humanity, the wisdom, the sense of justice of our friends.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Past, Light, Justice

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• The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Confidence, Stories, Violence

  Timothy Radcliffe (2005). “Seven Last Words”, p.91, A&C Black

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• As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.

  Iris Chang

  Years, Forget, Nobel

  Iris Chang (1997). “The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II”, p.21, Basic Books

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, God, Lonely

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• The holocaust is the solution to the Jews final question

  Adolf Hitler

  Finals, Jew, Solutions

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• 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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• We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Utopia, Ends, Mistrust

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2013). “Making Waves: Essays 1962-93”, p.150, Faber & Faber

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• I ask nothing of the Jews except that they should disappear.

  Hans Frank

  Criminals, Asking, Lawyer

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• I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Anne Frank (2017). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.143, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly uptill 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.

  Anne Frank

  People, Suffering, Example

  Anne Frank, Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Netherlands) (1989). “The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition”, Viking Pr

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• No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Effort, Twenties, Firsts

  "Netanyahu: A Career of Controversy". www.nbcnews.com. March 16, 2010.

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• Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

  Theodor Adorno

  Animal, Thinking, Suffering

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• They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.

  Muhammad Ali

  Cartoon, Germany, Killing

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• For me the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy. After the war, when I saw that the Jews were talking only about the tragedy of six million Jews, I sent letters to Jewish organizations asking them to talk also about the millions of others who were persecuted with us together - many of them only because they helped Jews.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  War, Talking, Organization

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• A Jew is for me an object of disgust. I feel like vomiting when I see one. Christ could not possibly have been a Jew. It is not necessary to prove that scientifically - it is a fact. I do not need to prove this with science or scholarship. It is so!

  Joseph Goebbels

  Needs, Vomiting, Facts

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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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• Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

  Pope Francis

  Respect, Peace, Pain

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. January 27, 2015.

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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, Despair

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• We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

  Linda Lavin

  People, Genocide, Theater

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