Timothy D. Snyder Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

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

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

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

I've met many Holocaust survivors who find the era infinitely compelling because they have this deep hunger to understand how it all could possibly have happened.

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.

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.'

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

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

My original interest in the Nazi holocaust was personal. 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.

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'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.