Auschwitz Quote by Elie Wiesel

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

— Billy Graham

“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

“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

The dead of Auschwitz should have brought upon us a total transformation; nothing should have been allowed to remain as it was, neither among…

— Johann Baptist Metz

“And this author thinks that understanding why they died is the best and most fitting memorial we can raise for the victims. Letting their…

— Prunier, Gérard

Thousands of men executed and buried in mass graves, hundreds of men buried alive, men and women mutilated and slaughtered, children killed before their…

— Fouad Riad

“ 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

The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of…

— Hannah Arendt

It appeared that most of the men and boys had died of starvation; they had not been executed. But the manner of death seemed…

— Edward R. Murrow

Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever…

— Elie Wiesel

I died in Auschwitz, but no one knows it

— Charlotte Delbo

After Auschwitz, I no longer cry at funerals.

— Charlotte Delbo