#holocaust

The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values. ↗

— Tim Holden

#attitudes #combination #democratic #erode #events

You are making music in the shadow of the gallows. ↗

— Paul B. Janeczko

#music

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . . ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#age

We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#holocaust #night #wiesel #death

But miracles still happen, even if we don't think they do. ↗

— Diet Eman

#dutch #holocaust #jesus-christ #righteous-gentile #wwii

To understand how that astounding moral blindness was possible, it is helpful to think of the workers of an armament plant who rejoice in the 'stay of execution' of their factory thanks to big new orders, while at the same time honestly bewailing the massacres visited upon each other by Ethiopians and Eritreans; or to think how it is possible that the 'fall in commodity prices' may be universally welcomed as good news while 'starvation of African children' is equally universally, and sincerely, lamented. ↗

— Zygmunt Bauman

#holocaust #sociology #equality

The only reason for this treatment was that they were Jews. ↗

— Muriel Knox Doherty

#holocaust #jews #wwii #experience

The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good. ↗

— Philip Gourevitch

#apathy #auschewitz #evil #genocide #good

The day after the assignation with Barstad, the low stacked-heels of Charlotte Neumann, an ordained Episcopalian priest, author of New Art Modalities: Woman/Sin, Sin/Woman, S/in/ister, which, the week before, had broken through the top-10,000 barrier of the Barnes & Noble on-line bestseller list, and who was, not incidentally, the department chairperson, echoed down the hallway and stopped at his door. ↗

— John Sandford

#art

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#holocaust #war #witness #wit