Holocaust Quotes - Page 14

• What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.

  Paul LePage

  Humanity, Trying, Want

  "At Brock Fundraiser, Maine Gov. Paul LePage Doubles Down on 'Gestapo' Comment" by Paul Heintz, www.sevendaysvt.com. July 12, 2012.

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• Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

  Hans Haacke

  Want, Lasts

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• I think there is a risk that the Holocaust will be placed under a glass bubble just like the Napoleonic Wars or the Thirty Years' War. If you don't make the connection between memories of past atrocities and the present, there isn't any point to it. There are plenty of horrible things happening today in Germany and in the rest of the world.

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  Memories, War, Past

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity of the novel as a form.

  Ian Mcewan

  Sorry, Literature, Novel

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• So many times after a catastrophe like 9/11, Estonia in Sweden, the Holocaust or whatever, we are so fond of lifting up the hero examples, but actually 99 percent of survivors have done something that they feel very guilty about.

  Ruben Ostlund

  Hero, Example, Survivor

  Source: collider.com

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• When I need journalistic honesty, I have to turn to Al Jazeera, why is that? One cannot even deny the Holocaust in Europe, question 9/11 in America (unless you want the Ward Churchill treatment), but the West claims they're all about free speech.

  Remi Kanazi

  Honesty, America, Europe

  "What Would Jesus Do?". www.informationclearinghouse.info. February 4, 2006.

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• I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust; I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!

  Isabel Allende

  Children, War, Mean

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.

  Irena Sendler

  Half, World, Forget

  Irena Sendler's letter to the Polish Senate (2007), as quoted in "Irena Sendler: An Unsung Heroine" by Louis Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk. 2007.

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• The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you learn about Goethe, don't forget to study the Holocaust, too.

  Roman Vishniac

  People, Saint, World

  "Testament to a Lost People" by Herbert Mitgang, New York Times, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 1983.

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• Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.

  Noah Feldman

  Memories, Self, Practice

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• 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

  Home, Community, Population

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• Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.

  Alan King

  Way, Jokes, Larry

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• Being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career.

  Bernie Sanders

  Careers, Political, Prejudice

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be the end of not only civilization, but art, too.

  Ian Mcewan

  Art, Civilization, Would Be

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• In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things that we have left undone and I suffer premonitions confirm suspicions of the holocaust to come.

  Roger Waters

  Thinking, Mirrors, Views

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• Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

  Brett Ratner

  Mom, Beach, Brother

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• 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.

  Marek Belka

  Country, Important, Culture

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• There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

  Fidel Castro

  Compare

  "Castro: 'No One Has Been Slandered More Than the Jews'". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.theatlantic.com. September 7, 2010.

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• No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for 9/11. Such subjects overwhelm art.

  Roger Ebert

  Art, Catharsis, Able

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.160, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• 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.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Thinking, Israel, Media

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• 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

  People, One Day, Would Be

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• History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.

  Jodi Picoult

  War, Looks, World

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.

  Joseph Goebbels

  History, Nazism, Opponents

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• With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people.

  Adolf Hitler

  Girl, Blood, People

  Adolf Hitler (1943). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Struggle, History, Tasks

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