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“The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.”

“As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.”

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Author:Bob Beauprez

“The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important.”

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Author:Marek Belka

“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.”

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Author:Dan Quayle

“Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.”

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Author:Eli Roth

“The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.”

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Author:Jonathan Sacks

“People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.”

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Author:Jonathan Sacks

“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.”

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Author:Jonathan Sacks

“Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.”

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Author:Jonathan Sacks

“I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.”

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Author:Benazir Bhutto

“There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“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.”

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Author:Ariel Sharon

“I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core.”

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Author:Sarah Silverman

“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 grandfathers or my grandmothers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.”

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Author:Gene Simmons

“When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.”

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Author:Simon Sinek

“I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.”

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Author:Peter Singer

“The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.”

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Book:Self-portrait

Source: Self-portrait

“It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.”

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Author:Mark Udall

“My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.”

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Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'”

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Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.”

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Author:Lech Walesa

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.”

“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“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.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”

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Book:From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

“We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.”

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Book:Night

Source: Night

“It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.”

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Book:From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

“For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.”

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Author:Simon Wiesenthal

“God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.”

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Author:Simon Wiesenthal

“The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.”

People Please Despair Holocaust Euro European History

Author:George Will

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

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“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.”

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Book:The diary of a young girl

Source: The diary of a young girl

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

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

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Book:Night

Source: Night

“Here's the truth: the Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn't have a single one. But when the world was on the brink of nuclear holocaust, Kennedy talked to Khrushchev and he got those missiles out of Cuba. Why shouldn't we have the same courage and the confidence to talk to our enemies? That's what strong countries do, that's what strong presidents do, that's what I'll do when I'm president of the United States of America.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.”

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Author:Primo Levi

“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.”

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Book:The Devil's Arithmetic

Source: The Devil's Arithmetic

“Reading my personal accountI believe you feel-you-will know that the Holocaust was neither a legend nor Hollywood fiction but a lesson for the future!”

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Author:Livia Bitton-Jackson

“Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.”

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Book:25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom

Source: 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom

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

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Author:Theodor Adorno

“We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new world. That's been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries . What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate. Or we can try to make things better.”

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Book:Daniel's Story

Source: Daniel's Story

“Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself”

Ifs Long Night Forget Holocaust Long Nights Loss Of Faith

Author:Elie Wiesel

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