Timothy D. Snyder Quotes

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

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

I was probably unusually close to my parents, so I do what I can now to preserve the integrity of their memory. The Holocaust deserves to be remembered.

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.

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

Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

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

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

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

Many of Israel's leaders are inundated with extreme ideology that is centered around a deep sense of victimhood. Ghosts from the past blind their eyes from seeing that anyone else could suffer from discrimination in our modern state. In fact, the definition of "traitor" nowadays is "peacenik" or even leftist. The Jewish values that inspired Israel's Declaration of Independence are too often less relevant to government policy than the dead sea scrolls.

In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived.

There's a basic problem with the history of the Holocaust. The people who do it don't know the necessary languages.

As a post-Holocaust kid, growing up in a neighborhood with a lot of Jewish refugees, I had got the idea there were no Jews left in Europe. But I found in my European wanderings that many of them had gone back and rebuilt their lives.

Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel is a reality.

As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward.

There's been a significant amount of Israelis who are joining my party because they think that Israel has to have a tough stance in this crazy environment called the Middle East.

My family is very excited about me doing Anne Frank.

My father's family was mostly obliterated in the Holocaust, and I grew up very much with the sense that the central moral and political question is how do we prevent these things from happening again.

I have a sustained distrust for all politicians, even those with whom I agree on more issues than not.

There are Jews who were born in Poland before World War II and survived the Holocaust, who think Poland and the Poles deserve an apology.

We strongly condemn all forms of anti-Semitism as well as any form of downplaying or denial of the Holocaust.

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

I hate all politicians equally.

You would be naive to suggest that politics isn't complicated or isn't a game, but you don't create change through cynicism.

Don't believe in Netanyahu.