Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this

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

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

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.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

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

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

No one will ever understand Auschwitz.

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

The truth about the Holocaust must not die.

Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.

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

There are Jews who were born in Poland before World War II and survived the Holocaust, who think Poland and the Poles deserve an apology.

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

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic.

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

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.

If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance.

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

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.

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.'