On Monday, January 27, we will remember the millions of victims of the Holocaust. This year, let’s not just say “Never Again,” but let’s mean it.
These are some quotes of Holocaust survivors, use them as inspiration for now and the future.
“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes, we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe.”
—Elie Wiesel
“For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people. We saw it begin in Germany with Jews, but people from more than twenty other nations were also murdered.”
—Simon Wiesenthal
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
—Primo Levi
“The Holocaust manifested the veneer of civilization so thin and fragile that repetition was possible.”
—Sam Kaltman
“Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.”
—Hannah Arendt
“The attempt to develop a sense of humour and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living. Yet it is possible to practice the art of living even in a concentration camp, although suffering is omnipresent. To draw an analogy: a man’s suffering is similar to the behaviour of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus, suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore, the “size” of human suffering is absolutely relative. It also follows that a very trifling thing can cause the greatest of joys.”
—Viktor Frankl
Sources
https://parade.com/1327091/jessicasager/holocaust-remembrance-day-quotes/
https://hmh.org/about/25-quotes
https://www.newsweek.com/holocaust-remembrance-day-quotes-tributes-nazi-victims-879579
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