Auschwitz Quotes

“If all men are good, there can be no Auschwitz.”

— Miklós Nyiszli

There is no German identity without Auschwitz,

— Joachim Gauck

There can be no poetry after Auschwitz.

— Theodor Adorno

“At Auschwitz dying was so easy. Surviving was a full time job.”

— Eva Mozes Kor

Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history.

— Isaac Herzog

After Auschwitz, I no longer cry at funerals.

— Charlotte Delbo

The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.

— Ian Kershaw

Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.

— Primo Levi

I prefer a powerful and proud Jewish State that is hated by the entire world than an Auschwitz that is loved by…

— Meir Kahane

“It is often said that one’s theology is not tenable unless it can be preached at the gates of Auschwitz.”

— Austin Fischer

Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of…

— Primo Levi

While filming 'The Pianist' I visited Auschwitz. Nothing prepared me for it.

— Maureen Lipman

“Afrička Velika jezera jesu Auschwitz današnjega vremena, no i na njima su se također pojavljivali primjeri nevjerojatne čovječnosti.”

— Jon Sobrino

I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a…

— David Sedaris

“What is to give light must endure burning"--Victor Frankl, Auschwitz survivor”

— Nina Munteanu

Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

— Pope Francis

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but…

— Elie Wiesel

Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a…

— Erwin Chargaff

When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep…

— Viktor E. Frankl

When I visited Auschwitz I was horrified. And when I visited Iraq, I thought to myself, 'What will we tell our children…

— Mairead Corrigan

“The wisest ones hid. Camillo Rosselli had not hidden. He’d been so confident his Italian citizenship would protect him. Camillo had been…

— Amy Harmon

“I release Josef, who collapses to my feet, and confesses not just to all war crimes at Auschwitz but also for being…

— Jodi Picoult

“Auschwitz was attacked and recovered by the Russian forces on January 27th, 1945. A very short time before that date Buchenwald had…

— Javier Gómez Pérez

It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that…

— Anonymous

I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It…

— David Ben-Gurion

“..Well, I did go. To Auschwitz. And the warning was correct. Not because I was not permitted to describe what I had…

— Alan Folsom

“ Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I…

— William Styron

No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there…

— Peter Kreeft

Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the…

— Terry Brooks

One day in Auschwitz I became so dispirited that I couldn't carry on. They had given me a beating, which wasn't exactly…

— Otto Frank

CNN? Oh, that's that network with Larry King, who, like the Son of Sam, is a native of Brooklyn. Used to be…

— Mark Steyn

The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains…

— Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

“Sigmund Freud once asserted, "Let one attempt to expose a number of the most diverse people uniformly to hunger. With the increase…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“I'll never forget the first day in Auschwitz, the first time in Mauthausen. At that second place, as time wore on, I…

— Markus Zusak

“When we first arrived at Auschwitz there were birds. I didn't know what kind, just brown birds, like the finches. They came…

— Lawrence Thornton

“It's said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That's false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the…

— Jacob Bronowski

“Look up at the stars, and we are bombarded by light generated on the day the last victim at Pingfang died, the…

— Ken Liu

“When I was in Auschwitz, I kept asking, why am I here, what did I do wrong? What did my grandfather do…

— Alice Lok Cahana

“The first camp to be discovered in the west was the Natzweiler-Struthof camp in Alsace, which the French army entered on 23…

— Keith Lowe

“Begin then made the inevitable–if inaccurate–analogy between the German-sanctioned selektzia at Entebbe and the more infamous actions of Dr Mengele at Auschwitz…

— Saul David