W. G. Sebald Quotes

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

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

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.

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

Sure I do a lot of jokes about Anne Frank. But when you do those jokes, it makes people remember what happened to her. That process of bringing her story back doesn't have to be a serious one. What I say is all nonsense, but it helps to keep her memory alive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.

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 Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

The Nazi gas chambers are but a detail of history

The truth about the Holocaust must not die.

I heard about the Holocaust before hearing the 'Cinderella' story or watching 'Peter Pan.'

I'm the son of two Holocaust survivors. As a child, I heard from one of my parents' best friends about living through Mengele's infamous selection process at Auschwitz. He haunted my nightmares.

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.

My mother arrived in Brussels in 1938 from a small town near Krakow. But strangely enough, in 1942 or 1943, she was taken back to Auschwitz, which was just 30 miles from where she grew up. Her parents died there and a lot of her family.