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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake. Viktor E. Frankl

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Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips. Viktor E. Frankl

Prayer Man Those Entered Invented He Also Lord However His Auschwitz Lips Upright Being Who Chambers Gas Gas Chambers

Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing. Diane von Furstenberg

When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in. Viktor E. Frankl

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Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur. Edward Bond

Occur Auschwitz Tragedy Cannot Place Which

Auschwitz speaks against even a right to self-determination that is enjoyed by all other peoples because one of the preconditions for the horror, besides other, older urges, was a strong and united Germany. Gunter Grass

People Strong Older Other Besides Horror Self-Determination Because Auschwitz Germany Against Urges Speaks Even United Right Enjoyed

There is much that makes one pause in 'If This is a Man', the record of Levi's 11-month incarceration in Auschwitz, much one cannot read without needing to lay aside the book and inhale the breath of common air. Howard Jacobson

Man Book Breath Air Record Lay Read Without Makes Auschwitz Common Cannot Aside Pause Much Incarceration Inhale Levi Needing

What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history. Imre Kertesz

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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection. Imre Kertesz

When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over. Imre Kertesz

You Black Sense Must About Only Write Cheap Over Excuse Know Least Still Auschwitz Begins Suspended Literature Which Certain Should Serial Novel Expression

The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy. Imre Kertesz

Suffering Experience Perspective Delay Interviews Prominent Promised Spielberg Silent Gives Through He Academy Him Knows Accepts Makes Auschwitz Survivor After Holocaust Swedish Payments Who Foundation Assigned Keeps Compensation Speech

My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in Terezin, not far from Prague, and exterminated in Auschwitz by the Nazis. The Ginz family were from more or less the same milieu as the Kafkas. Justin Cartwright

We need creativity. We need more poetry after Auschwitz. Rithy Panh

Creativity More Poetry Auschwitz After Need

I'm the son of two Holocaust survivors. As a child, I heard from one of my parents' best friends about living through Mengele's infamous selection process at Auschwitz. He haunted my nightmares. Ronen Bergman

Best Son Parents Living About Haunted Through Selection He Heard Infamous Auschwitz Friends Child Survivors Process Holocaust Two Nightmares

I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an optimistic place? Because all the pessimists were already in New York by then. Yair Lapid

Jokes Fond New Particularly Because Were Auschwitz Optimistic Forget York New York Cannot Place Then Pessimists Why

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on. Noam Chomsky

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