Back Quote by Mark Kurlansky

Most of the Jewish refugees, stripped of their considerable possessions, came to Israel. They were welcomed by the Jewish state. They were given shelter…

— Yitzhak Shamir

“Even the Jewish communities that already existed in the Reich or in Vienna viewed Orthodox Jewish refugees as outsiders who lacked social standing and…

— Robert Gerwarth

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago and living in New York, it didn't even strike me as a possibility that a place could…

— Molly Yeh

Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

I have always lived in Amsterdam. During the war, we inhabited the Rivieren neighborhood where many Jews lived at the time. Our downstairs neighbors…

— Els Borst

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

— Frans Timmermans

You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin,…

— W. G. Sebald

The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.

— Peter Stuyvesant

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

— Elliott Carter

The Holocaust marooned the Jewish people in history.

— Steve Stern

The hopes of Europe's six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, 'Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?' I replied,…

— Chaim Weizmann

We, the Jews, not only have degenerated and are located at the end of the path, we spoiled the blood of all the peoples…

— Theodor Herzl