Holocaust quotes

Holocaust

293 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

293 quotes
Anne Frank
Anne Frank Diaries Writer

"Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews....If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed."

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Simone Veil
Simone Veil Politician

"It's here, where absolute evil was perpetrated, that the will must resurface for a fraternal world, a world based on respect of man and his dignity."

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Ali Khamenei
Ali Khamenei Political Leader

"Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it."

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Mae West
Mae West Actress, Singer, Screenwriter

"I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust."

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Holocaust

"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."

People Memories Holocaust
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Anne Frank Diaries Writer
Holocaust

"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."

Suffering Example Holocaust
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Spike Lee Filmmaker, Actor
Holocaust

"American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them."

Honor Slavery Holocaust
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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
Holocaust

"Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it ... the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten."

Lessons Holocaust Armenia
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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Holocaust

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

Faith Anger Holocaust
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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Holocaust

"The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word."

Shoes Holocaust Entering
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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Holocaust

"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."

Answers Tragedy Holocaust
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Al Gore Politician
Holocaust

"Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence is as clear as the sounds of glass shattering in Berlin."

Glasses Clouds Holocaust
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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Holocaust

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

Hope Despair Holocaust
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