Sarah Silverman Quotes

I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

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.

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.

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared.

It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.

The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time.

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

I now believe I know how it felt to be a Jew in Hitler’s Germany.

It's tough being a Jew.

I'm a Jew. I think every Jew is dark in certain ways.

Before I became an orphan of the Holocaust my early family life was stable. I grew up as a German Jew in Frankfurt, and I was in a household with two loving parents and an adoring grandmother who spoiled me. My mother helped my father in their wholesale business and they went to synagogue every Friday.

I've been working with Jews for over 20 years.

The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

Summer came. For the book thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. When their bodies had finished scouring for gaps in the door, their souls rose up. When their fingernails had scratched at the wood and in some cases were nailed into it by the sheer force of desperation, their spirits came toward me, into my arms, and we climbed out of those shower facilities, onto the roof and up, into eternity's certain breadth. They just kept feeding me. Minute after minute. Shower after shower.

The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the most visceral grief and abject pain.

As a child, I personally didn't really get to know any Jews. I was eight years old when the Night of Broken Glass happened. And Ludwigshafen was purely a workers' city, so we didn't have a very big Jewish community. What I did know about the Jews, I heard from my mother. My mother was very much pro-Jewish.

As a Jew, there's a need to keep that atrocity alive. There were Catholics and gypsies and homosexuals who died in the Holocaust, too. It's amazing that people allowed this slaughter to take place. There's a need to make these films and reiterate it happened.

My grandfather was facing this terror, my parents, myself.

In the 20th century, in the darkest period of German and European history, an insane racist ideology, born of neopaganism, gave rise to the attempt, planned and systematically carried out by the regime, to exterminate European Jews. The result has passed into history as the Shoah.

The German mass murder of the Jews... brought my Jewishness to the surface.

My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.

The truth about the Holocaust must not die.