About Quote by Amy Bloom

My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents.

— Elizabeth Diller

When I was four or five years old, I heard a lot of stories about the Holocaust because both my parents were survivors. I'm…

— Christian Boltanski

I was probably unusually close to my parents, so I do what I can now to preserve the integrity of their memory. The Holocaust…

— Norman Finkelstein

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

— Chris Bohjalian

I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call the Holocaust. It was this dark…

— Elliot Perlman

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the…

— Naomi Benaron

My mom, for most of her life, was a Holocaust denier. And it was terrible for the entire family to have to deal with…

— Anthony Jeselnik

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is…

— Alanis Obomsawin

I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.

— Lynn Nottage

I really try to avoid, you know, rolling out the history. The people are so important to me, and what happens to them, how…

— Ru Freeman

My grandfather was a Holocaust survivor and his life and history were very formative to myself and my family. The almost unimaginable dichotomy between…

— Jonathan Raymond

My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing…

— Patrick J. Adams