I don't know that I would have the courage to come over to a new country where the religion is different, the language is different, where I don't have any money. The thought of starting over like that in the… — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
“You can live as a ghost, waiting for death to come, or you can dance .” — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
“The ceremony was fast so we wouldn't be caught. When it was over, the men all whispered 'Mazel tov' and climbed back onto their shelves. I went up to the boy and pressed the wooden horse into his hands, the only present I could give him. The boy looked at me with big, round eyes. Had I ever been so… — Alan Gratz Copy Share
“It was all a big joke. I could see that now. There was no rhyme or reason to whether we lived or died. One day it might be the man next to you at roll call who is torn apart by dogs. The next day it might be you who is shot through the head. You could play the game… — Alan Gratz Copy Share
“If no one saw them, no one could help them. And maybe the world needed to see what was really happening here.” — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
“I had survived the work gangs in the ghetto. Baked bread under cover of night. Hidden in a pigeon coop. Had a midnight bar mitzvah in the basement of an abandoned building. I had watched my parents be taken away to their deaths, had avoided Amon Goeth and his dogs, had survived the salt mines of Wieliczka and the sick… — Alan Gratz Copy Share
“Baseball, more than any other sport, has a magical way of connecting fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren and ancestors back down the line. - From The Brooklyn Nine” — Alan Gratz Copy Share
I think kids are incredibly savvy readers. I think we should give them all the credit in the world. They want to know the… — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
“And that was the real truth of it, wasn't it? Whether you were visible or invisible, it was all about how other people reacted to you. Good and bad things happened either way. If you were invisible, bad people couldn't hurt you, that was true. But the good people couldn't help you, either. If you stayed invisible here, did everything… — Alan Gratz Copy Share
“I shook with helplessness and rage, but also with fear. This was what fighting back earned you. More abuse. More death. Half a dozen Jews would be murdered today because one man refused to die without a fight. To fight back was to die quickly and to take others with you. This was why prisoners went meekly to their deaths.… — Alan Gratz Copy Share
“I had managed to scare even the monsters, and when you can scare monsters, you can be sure you've become one yourself.” — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
“What were they thinking, those little German children? Did they see animals when they looked at us, or people? I wasn't so sure myself… — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
