Experience Quote by Bill Duke

I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly eerie doll.…

— Augusten Burroughs

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'm the son of two Holocaust survivors. As a child, I heard from one of my parents' best friends about living through Mengele's infamous…

— Ronen Bergman

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around…

— Felix Rohatyn

The truth is, it's very hard looking back... we look at holocaust now with such knowledge and such a sense of the horror of…

— David Heyman

Reading my personal accountI believe you feel-you-will know that the Holocaust was neither a legend nor Hollywood fiction but a lesson for the future!

— Livia Bitton-Jackson

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

As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature;…

— Louise Glück

I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.

— Edgar Wright

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 remember learning about the Holocaust when I was in kindergarten and being terrified. I think we even watched a graphic video about it…

— Jill Soloway

My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another.

— Max Bemis