Deborah Lipstadt Quotes

#1. At one point Malkin and one of his colleagues took Eichmann to the toilet. They waited outside. After a few minutes, Eichmann called out to Malkin, 'Darf ich anfangen?' ('May I begin?') Only when told yes did he begin to move his bowels.

The Eichmann Trial, page 17

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#2. Love does not make cowards. It creates heroes.

Dan Skinner

#3. A creative, thoughtful, and accomplished people such as the Jewish people should be known by what they have done and not by what has been done to them.

Deborah Lipstadt

#4. A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different - is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being.

Tom Spanbauer

#5. Hearing this, I was reminded of Hajo's comment the previous summer. "People like David Irving do not throw firebombs. They throw the words that can cause others to throw those firebombs.

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#6. If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.

Deborah Lipstadt

#7. If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.

Greg Kinnear

#8. No, Eichmann assured him, there was no specific talk of killing methods.

-- The Eichmann Trial, page 137

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#9. On one occasion, when he was about to be taken from the interrogation room, he thought he was going to be shot. His knees buckled and he cried out in a pleading voice: "I have not told you everything yet".

-- The Eichmann Trial, page 44

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#10. The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

Paracelsus

#11. I thank the Lord daily for His glorious blessings.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Leon Wells told of Operation 1005, the group of Jewish prisoners assigned to eradicate the evidence by opening mass graves and exhuming, burning, and pulverizing the bodies.

-- The Eichmann Trial, page 87

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#13. Rampton suggested that one could derive a "fair picture of a man's true attitudes and motives from what he says and from the kind of people he associates with and speaks to.

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#14. Let us never stop being vigilant about the Oys which face us. But let us never turn them into our raison d'etre. Let us also celebrate the JOYS.

Deborah Lipstadt

#15. Ultimately, Hausner's efforts regarding the murder were thwarted when questions posed by both Servatius and the judges proved that Avraham Gordon, whom Hausner called as the witness to the murder, could not have observed it.

-- The Eichmann Trial, page 99

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#16. The food business is very tough, but there's also a lot of love and very giving.

Marcus Samuelsson