Acknowledgment Quote by Daniel Libeskind

If there's no future for Jews in Europe, there's no future for Europe.

— Frans Timmermans

Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It…

— Janet Fitch

The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time

— Hjalmar Schacht

We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have…

— Erik Larson

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

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

— Tony Judt

If I'd been living in Berlin in 1933-34, could I possibly have foreseen the Holocaust and all the corollary horrors of World War II?…

— Erik Larson

If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the…

— Deborah Lipstadt

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

— Paul Mooney

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

— Romain Gary

It seems unavoidable that history will always link the reestablishment of the State of Israel with the tragedy of the Holocaust.

— David Novak

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the…

— Shimon Peres