Mikie Sherrill Quotes

I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he helped liberate Dachau in the 7th Army.

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

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.

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

It is thanks to men and women who were totally committed to fighting fascism, people like Alan Turing, that the horrors of the Holocaust and of total war are part of Europe's history and not Europe's present.

The truth about the Holocaust must not die.

In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there.

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.

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.'

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 learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel.

You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But you could not just stand by. If you were in Europe between 1933 and 1945, you had to be something.

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

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.

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

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'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.

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

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.