Joshua Oppenheimer Quotes

Every show you do, you have to do research, and I love to dig into things. I learned about World War II by doing 'Anne Frank.'

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

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.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

No one will ever understand Auschwitz.

The Holocaust could have been prevented, We know it could not have taken palce had the Jewish State been extablished a few years earlier.

The truth about the Holocaust must not die.

When somebody says that six million people died in the Holocaust, there is nobody in the world who can understand that. It's only through story, reading books by Elie Wiesel or Primo Levi, that you really begin to understand the trauma and how horrible it actually was.

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

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.

Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.

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.

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

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.

I'm of that generation of Jews still deeply influenced by the Holocaust. Certainly the notion that the state power to kill can be subject to such extraordinary abuse is always lurking beneath the surface for me. Certainly my experience and identity as a Jew is there.

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

I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.

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

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

The Nazi gas chambers are but a detail of history

Only one and half million Jews died in the Holocaust.

During my first semester of college, I raised my hand in a class and asked the professor to define a word I didn't know. The word was holocaust, and I had to ask because, until that moment, I had never heard of it.

Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.