Agony Quote by Abraham Joshua Heschel

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

— Romain Gary

“Auschwitz has also become the standard shorthand of the Holocaust because, when treated in a certain mythical and reductive way, it seems to separate…

— Timothy Snyder

Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever…

— Elie Wiesel

“The word "Auschwitz" has become a metonym for the Holocaust as a whole. Yet the vast majority of Jews had already been murdered, further…

— Timothy Snyder

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

— William Styron

The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death…

— Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

We cannot get by Auschwitz. We should not even try, as great as the temptation is, because Auschwitz belongs to us, is branded into…

— Gunter Grass

“I am keenly aware that the security we enjoy is frail, and could easily be disrupted. Secretly, a nagging fear gnaws at me: what…

— Daniel Waterman

The dead of Auschwitz should have brought upon us a total transformation; nothing should have been allowed to remain as it was, neither among…

— Johann Baptist Metz

But there's something about the simplicity of Auschwitz... there's just nothing. There's just photographs, there's a room full of limbs, a room full of…

— David Heyman

Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers…

— Primo Levi

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

— Pope Francis