«Holocaust»

The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.

David Novak

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

Yehuda Bauer

The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society’s democratic values.

Tim Holden

The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...

Elie Wiesel, Night

It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.

Elie Wiesel, Night

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

The slogan ’Never Again!’ that emerged after the Holocaust implies that the Holocaust has a universal moral meaning, which, if properly learned, can provide at least a theoretical prophylactic against its repetition against anyone.

David Novak

Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.

Jonathan Sacks

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

Tim Holden

Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.

Tadeusz Borowski,

This Way for the Gas,

Ladies and Gentlemen

I will never be able to go back to Stockholm, without knowing inside myself that I’d done all a man could possibly to do save as many Jews as possible.

Raoul Wallenberg

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

Elie Wiesel

Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.

Jon Porter

The only reason for this treatment was that they were Jews.

(Letters from Belsen 1945: An Australian Nurse’s Experiences with the Survivors of War)

Muriel Knox Doherty

It’s in the history books, the Holocaust. It’s just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

Gene Simmons

I had to help them. There was no choice.

Oskar Schindler

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

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

Elie Wiesel

It’s Hebrew, it’s from the Talmud. It says, ’Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.’

’Schindler’s List’

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