Bernie Sanders Quotes

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'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 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.

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

I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

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.

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

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

I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.

Marched into Russia. Killed the Jews. Strangled the women. Murdered the children. Everyone knows what we bring.

We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.

Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history.

The truth about the Holocaust must not die.

Like a lot of people, I read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' again and again and again when I was growing up - I'm still completely felled by what an astounding book it is. And as a teenager, I did a lot of reading about concentration camps and the vast horrors of the war.

I've been to Dachau.

I will never forget the moment when Peter van Pels and I saw a group of selected men. Among those men was Peter's father. The men were marched away. Two hours later, a lorry came by, loaded with their clothing.

If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.

Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is because Hitler and all German people knew that Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany.

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

My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us.

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.'