He did not want to be buried in Austria, as he was afraid his grave will be mutilated. |
Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive, |
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. |
I didn't forget you. |
I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery. |
I have never stated that 'there were no extermination camps on German soil.' This quote is false, I could never have said such a thing. |
I have received many honors in my lifetime, ... When I die, these honors will die with me. But the Simon Wiesenthal Center will live on as my legacy. |
I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty. |
I was over four years in different camps with people from 15 nations: Jews, Gentiles, Gypsies, communists. Through this experience, my view on the Holocaust and the whole problem of Nazism is a lot different from Elie Wiesel, who was only six months in camps and only with Jews. |
I'm here to assure you that our city is prepared to handle these situations, ... Power was restored to the vast majority of D.W.P. customers, 90 percent, within the first two hours. |
If all of us forgot, the same thing might happen again, in 20 or 50 or 100 years, |
If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors. |
Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations. |
None of my "clients" - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics, maybe just a Jewish prostitute. |
Obviously, |