I think there is a risk that the Holocaust will be placed under a glass bubble just like the Napoleonic Wars or the Thirty Years' War. If you don't make the connection between memories of past atrocities and the present,… — Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Copy Share Image
Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were only able to take along the things they loved the most. Well, of course, a musician would take along her instrument. But then they would take these precious possessions away from the prisoners once they arrived.… — Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Copy Share
The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains may have heard that terrible things were happening in Auschwitz, but even up to the end, they kept on thinking: Perhaps it isn't so bad after all. And then they arrived and the SS told them: "The old… — Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Copy Share
You know, being Jewish is problematic. Most people really don't know what exactly it means to be a Jew. We belong to a community of suffering, and that's what binds us together. But we are also extremely diverse. That's something I wish people who hate Jews as a group because they think they're so different would understand. We're also completely… — Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Copy Share
In school they told me I was a Jew, "a filthy Jew." At first I asked myself what exactly that was. But then I… — Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Copy Share Image
I think there is a risk that the Holocaust will be placed under a glass bubble just like the Napoleonic Wars or the Thirty… — Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Copy Share Image
