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“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

“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

“If the Holocaust is reduced to Auschwitz, then it can easily be forgotten that the German mass killing of Jews began in places that…

— Timothy Snyder

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

— Gunter Grass

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

— Romain Gary

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and…

— Ariel Sharon

“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

“Auschwitz was a dark epiphany, providing us with a terrible vision of what life is like when all sense of the sacred is lost…

— Karen Armstrong

“ 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

“Auschwitz—the very name stood for all that was horrible: gas chambers, crematoriums, massacres.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

— Edward Bond

The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again,…

— Yehuda Bauer