Holocaust Awareness Quotes

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

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

My mom, for most of her life, was a Holocaust denier. And it was terrible for the entire family to have to deal with until, finally, a couple years ago, we had an intervention. And we had a rabbi come into the home, had him walk her through the history of the Jewish people, and then he made her watch "Schindler's List." And after that, my mom did a complete 180. Now she can't believe it only happened once.

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.

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

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

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 wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler or to Nazis to think a bit harder about the Holocaust.

Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.