1. “In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.” ― Anne Frank
2. “Memory for most is a kind of afterlife; for my mother, it is another form of life.” ― Fern Shumer Chapman
3. “Above all else, have faith. Drive out despair, and you will keep death away from yourselves.” ― Elie Weisel
4. “There’s a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don’t lose courage. You’ve already escaped the gravest danger: selection.” ― Elie Wiesel
5. “You big shots think you can decide on my life, but I have news for you: you can’t touch a hair on my head without the will of God my Father, because He is on my side.” ― Diet Eman
6. “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.” ― Carol Matas
7. “After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery.” ― Diet Eman
8. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small face of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.” ― Elie Weisel
9. “By the end of the war, I could pick out Jewish people almost as if I had a sixth sense about it, even if they had blue eyes and blond hair. I would have been a very valuable Gestapo person.” ― Diet Eman
10. “Escape was not our goal since it was so unrealistic. What we wanted was to survive, to live long enough to tell the world what had happened in Buchenwald.” ― Jack Werber
11. “For me, being a Jew means feeling the tragedy of yesterday as an inner oppression. On my left forearm, I bear the Auschwitz number.” ― Jean Amery
12. “Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.” ― Tadusz Borowski
13. “But miracles still happen, even if we don’t think they do.” ― Diet Eman
14. “Once my father told me: When a Jew prays, he is asking God a question that has no end.” ― Nicole Krauss
15. “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.” ― Elie Weisel
16. “Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” ― Anne Frank
17. “The only reason for this treatment was that they were Jews.” ― Muriel Knox Doherty
18. “What I want you to take away from my life story is just how important it is to defend your freedom, at all costs. Experience has shown me that if you lost your freedom, you are condemned to fail.” ― Leon Schgrin
19. “The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria…” – Elie Weisel
20. “I am a Jew, then I mean by that those realities and possibilities that are summed up in the Auschwitz number.” ― Jean Amery
21. “Surely there is no more wretched sight than the human body unloved and uncared for.” ― Corrie Ten Boom
22. “For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.” ― Simon Wiesenthal
23. “His eyes seem to see nothing. He is a man whose soul has died and whose body is waiting to catch up with it.” ― Heather Morris
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