Elliot Perlman Quotes

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

The Holocaust is as real a historical event as World War II itself and not to be challenged.

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.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

The truth about the Holocaust must not die.

I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.

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

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.

No one will ever understand Auschwitz.

The Nazi gas chambers are but a detail of history

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

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

The only way you can handle big kinds of questions is to simply state briefly what the truth was. What am I going to tell you about the Holocaust? Would you like three pages about it? I don't think you would... I don't think anything different than you think - it was horrible.

The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

I've said before that I am not a historian and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it.

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

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

Lies surfaced about Jews being murdered here and there, and the Holocaust. And, of course, they are all lies and unfounded claims. No Chelmno, no Dachau, no Auschwitz! They were disinfection sites...

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