#holocaust

A white linen tablecloth edged with pink roses -- Mama's favorite pattern -- flowed like a bride's train from sidewalk to curb to gutter. Papa stared at black boot marks crossing it like sins. ↗

— Paul B. Janeczko

#holocaust

I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#attention #bank #bank account #divert #gold

Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet. ↗

— Taylor Hanson

#holocaust #internet #might #nuclear

To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard of what constitutes the unpardonable. And for what? For the reputation of a man who turns out to be not even a Holocaust denier but a Holocaust affirmer. There has to be a moral limit, and either this has to be it or we must cease pretending to ourselves that we observe one. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#holocaust

Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don't want to part from it. He had given me a pill of cyanide, He and his wife and their son also carried such pills. We all lived with death, and I want you to know that one can fall in love with death. Whoever has loved death cannot love anything else any more. When the liberation came and they told me to leave, I didn't want to go. I clung to the threshold like an ox being dragged to the slaughter. ("Hanka") ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#grave #holocaust #death

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. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#been #before #holocaust #know #learning

One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#doctors #embarked #feeling #had #holocaust

For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place. ↗

— William S. Cohen

#dangerous #dangerous place #holocaust #nuclear #place

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#being #cared #conclusion #holocaust #horrible

We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new world. That's been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries . What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate. Or we can try to make things better. ↗

— Carol Matas

#holocaust #hope #change