#holocaust

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#born #country #everybody #fascism #history

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

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

— Gene Tierney

#calculate #cannot #europe #fled #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

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#crime #ever #evil #holocaust #most

They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate? Misfortune? Is that what glued them down like that? Of course not. Let's not be stupid. It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#death

The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in. ↗

— Norma McCorvey

#could #even #ever #greatest #holocaust

Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust. ↗

— Norma McCorvey

#ask #down #father #god #holocaust

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#confidence #faith #holocaust #our #possibility

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#help #holocaust #ii #must #out