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. |
I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table. |
I had a teacher that always told me, 'Don't promise, because if you promise, you must keep it.' I promised, so here I am. |
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason. |
I have to wonder about people who compare Israelis to Nazis. |
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. |
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. |
I write to understand as much as to be understood |
If there is a crisis in the world, the U.N. should send a task force immediately, within 24 hours, |
In any case, he had bungled his life. Bad husband, bad father, bad lover: failure all along the line . . . All the springs were broken. No more light anywhere . . . Everything he had tried to build had fallen apart. The little good he had done had resulted in fiasco. Whose fault could it be other than his own? . . . And anyone will tell you that if God Himself cannot undo what happened, still less can man. |
In Jewish history there are no coincidences. |
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. |
It's not perfect. Nothing is perfect. Sometimes it takes time for the words to become more than words. |
It's not there just to enjoy. |
It's something that happens once in a lifetime, ... It would be silly on anyone's part to say it doesn't mean anything. It means something. It meant a lot of things. It was an important moment in my life. |