--- title: "1 Auschwitz Grandmother Quotes By Chantal Akerman" description: "1 Auschwitz Grandmother quotes by Chantal Akerman. Plus more from Chantal Akerman and more Auschwitz Grandmother sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c48/chantal-akerman-30627_anxiety_you-have-to-understand-that-i-m-a-child_2678913.jpg" --- > [You have to understand that I'm a child of the second generation, which means my mother was in Auschwitz, and the aunt of my mother was in Auschwitz with her; my grandmother and grandfather died there. So yes. All of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/you-have-to-understand-that-i-m-a-child-of-the-second-generation/) [Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c48/chantal-akerman-30627_anxiety_you-have-to-understand-that-i-m-a-child_2678913.jpg) ## More by Chantal Akerman > [First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a school with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/first-i-went-to-a-jewish-school-when-i-was-very-little-but-when-i-was/) [Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/) > [She who seeks shall find, find all to well, and end up clouding her vision with her own preconceptions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/she-who-seeks-shall-find-find-all-to-well-and-end-up-clouding-her/) [Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/) > [Delphine Seyrig is a very proper woman, from high society. She's from the Ferdinand de Saussure family, the structuralist. Old money. Swiss. Protestant. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/delphine-seyrig-is-a-very-proper-woman-from-high-society-she-s-from/) [Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/) > [Paris is not so square. I'm not good at the geography of the city in Paris, so I'm always lost. Here, in New York,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/paris-is-not-so-square-i-m-not-good-at-the-geography-of-the-city-in/) [Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/) > [What I think is dreadful about art is the way it's related to the money afterward. Not when you do it... But after that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/what-i-think-is-dreadful-about-art-is-the-way-it-s-related-to-the/) [Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/) > [Lars von Trier is very, very, very clever about women. He gives the woman a space that I don't know any filmmaker does. Because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/lars-von-trier-is-very-very-very-clever-about-women-he-gives-the/) [Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/) > [I went at 4:30 in the morning to a café 500 meters from my place. And it was another city... Totally different than where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/i-went-at-4-30-in-the-morning-to-a-caf-500-meters-from-my-place-and/) [Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/) > [Have you seen the film Histoires D'Amérique? It's also a mixture of humor and monologue, and it shows how the Jewish humor comes from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/have-you-seen-the-film-histoires-d-am-rique-it-s-also-a-mixture-of/) [Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/) > [My father said, "Okay, enough with the Jewish school." He put me into a public school and he said, "If you are the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/my-father-said-okay-enough-with-the-jewish-school-he-put-me-into-a/) [Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/) > [Look at Charlotte Gainsbourg, in the Lars von Trier film Antichrist. She's unbelievable. She doesn't act; she's there. She's great. And you love her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/look-at-charlotte-gainsbourg-in-the-lars-von-trier-film-antichrist/) [Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/) > [You have to understand that I'm a child of the second generation, which means my mother was in Auschwitz, and the aunt of my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/you-have-to-understand-that-i-m-a-child-of-the-second-generation/) [Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/) > [I wanted to write and then I saw Pierrot and I understand that I could express myself in a more... Also probably, I had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/i-wanted-to-write-and-then-i-saw-pierrot-and-i-understand-that-i/) [Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/) > [I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/i-m-jewish-that-s-all-so-i-am-in-exile-all-the-time-wherever-we-go-we/) [Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/) > [I had an awful joke about Auschwitz I drove everybody crazy with that joke. But that joke makes me feel good. You know what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/i-had-an-awful-joke-about-auschwitz-i-drove-everybody-crazy-with-that/) [Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/) > [When I'm in my neighborhood, I don't see anything anymore, because I'm so used to it. When I go somewhere else, suddenly, I'm alive.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chantal-akerman/when-i-m-in-my-neighborhood-i-don-t-see-anything-anymore-because-i-m/) [Chantal Akerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chantal-akerman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/auschwitz-grandmother/chantal-akerman/#itemlist", "name": "1 Auschwitz Grandmother Quotes By Chantal Akerman", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You have to understand that I'm a child of the second generation, which means my mother was in Auschwitz, and the aunt of my mother was in Auschwitz with her; my grandmother and grandfather died there. So yes. All of those gestures they work for you, or for them, to fill their time or not feel their anxiety. But the child feels everything. It doesn't make the child secure. 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