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“I think kids are incredibly savvy readers. I think we should give them all the credit in the world. They want to know the truth.” quote by Alan Gratz — Download Open image

“I think kids are incredibly savvy readers. I think we should give them all the credit in the world. They want to know the truth.”

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“You can live as a ghost, waiting for death to come, or you can dance .”

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“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…

“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…

“If no one saw them, no one could help them. And maybe the world needed to see what was really happening here.”

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“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…

“burst. How could I possibly wait? He turned to”

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“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”

“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…

“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.…

“I had managed to scare even the monsters, and when you can scare monsters, you can be sure you've become one yourself.”

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“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…

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“If I had known what the next six years of my life were going to be like, I would have eaten more. I wouldn't…

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