Witold Pilecki Quotes

I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history.

Only one and half million Jews died in the Holocaust.

Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps.

To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

Murder has been done in Buchenwald.

The killing of the Jews made the war monstrous.

The Nazi gas chambers are but a detail of history

My mother arrived in Brussels in 1938 from a small town near Krakow. But strangely enough, in 1942 or 1943, she was taken back to Auschwitz, which was just 30 miles from where she grew up. Her parents died there and a lot of her family.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

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 topic that I would know more about when I got older, but which was spoken about in hushed tones.

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.

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

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.

I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core.

I believe that the Holocaust is the most significant event in human history.

Auschwitz speaks against even a right to self-determination that is enjoyed by all other peoples because one of the preconditions for the horror, besides other, older urges, was a strong and united Germany.

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.