Holocaust History Quotes

#1. We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.

Patrick Chappatte

#2. We have seen and do see the type of evil that is within human civilization, and the Holocaust took place in European history during an advanced state of technology and form of civilization, only to become an event in that history that questioned what civilization actually means.

Laszlo Nemes

#3. Many people think making a film about history ... about war ... about the Holocaust, it might be heavy, dramatic and traumatic. I don't see things like that ... you can find irony everywhere. It's how I look at life.

Arnon Goldfinger

#4. How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another.

Andre Aciman

#5. Today an educated, civilized society is turning its face while thousands of unborn babies are being killed. God Himself, if not history, will judge this greater holocaust.

Billy Graham

#6. The history of the Holocaust is not over. Its precedent is eternal, and its lessons have not yet been

Timothy Snyder

#7. Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.

Jerry A. Coyne

#8. There were several key American scientists that favorably reported on Nazi eugenics after visiting Hitler's Germany in order to provide it cover.

A.E. Samaan

#9. Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel is a reality.

Daniel Barenboim

#10. It is thanks to men and women who were totally committed to fighting fascism, people like Alan Turing, that the horrors of the Holocaust and of total war are part of Europe's history and not Europe's present.

Gordon Brown

#11. Winston Churchill was an early proponent of eugenic legislation decades before Hitler came to power.

A.E. Samaan

#12. The death camps seem easier to comprehend if we put them all into the basket of one vast generalization, which the term "death camps" implies, but in the process we mythologize or trivialize them.

Ruth Kluger

#13. American newspapers frequently offered praise for eugenics just prior to WWII and The Holocaust .... that is, until Hitler revealed what eugenics really looked like. They avoided the subject for decades thereafter.

A.E. Samaan

#14. Not everyone is capable of sacrificing his own life. So it is, always has been and always will be.

Tadeusz Pankiewicz

#15. Poor little lambs,' says one, eyeing us constantly, as if there is something wrong with us; as if we have a condition that can't be named." Pastel Orphans

Gemma Liviero

#16. Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope!

Anne Frank

#17. The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

George Will

#18. You cannot write an accurate history of The Holocaust without accounting for the Harvard students and professors that help make the science an acceptable world-wide movement.

A.E. Samaan

#19. I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal.

Ralph Webster

#20. Rumors are the children of truth.

Danny M. Cohen

#21. Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.
- Winston S. Churchill

Ellen Brazer

#22. My little hobby. Book Collecting. And yet, old friends, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive. -Bulldog

Corrie Ten Boom

#23. My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments.

Amy Bloom

#24. Being raised a Jew in southern California in the 1950s and 1960s, my religious training emphasized learning the Hebrew language and Jewish festivals, history, and culture. We also remembered the Holocaust and supported the newly formed Jewish state of Israel.

Rick Strassman

#25. The Holocaust happened in Europe, and that's important to how it is viewed. Had Europeans done such a thing in the far corners of the earth, rather than on their own doorstep, it might not be mentioned in the history books.

Jamaica Kincaid

#26. Why is it that every so often history demands a bloodbath, a holocaust, an Armageddon? And why is it that every time the time before has taught us nothing?

Graham Swift

#27. The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?

Anne Frank

#28. It's a disgrace to us all! he almost screamed. 'We're letting them take us to our death like sheep to the slaughter!.....at least we could break out of the ghetto, or at least die honourably, not as a stain on the face of history!

Wladyslaw Szpilman

#29. If epigenetic changes caused by trauma such as the Holocaust, or enslavement, can be passed through generations, as researchers have recently found, perhaps some of us are hard-wired to be afraid because our history has taught us that fear is a kind of armor.

Amy Brill

#30. Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple.

Ralph Webster

#31. I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.

Jill Soloway

#32. It seems unavoidable that history will always link the reestablishment of the State of Israel with the tragedy of the Holocaust.

David Novak

#33. Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little bunch of international bandits and assassins and squatters who have perpetrated the most massive, cynical fraud in human history.

Harold Covington

#34. Hitler learned his eugenics from the infamous "Baur-Fischer-Lenz" book that documented American and British eugenics.

A.E. Samaan

#35. Churchill's 2,054 page book "Second World War" makes no mention of genocide or the murder of Jews. Coincidentally, Churchill was a strong proponent of eugenic legislation prior to the outbreak of WWII.

A.E. Samaan

#36. Jean-Marie Le Pen is a holocaust denier who was convicted and fined for dismissing Nazi concentration camps as a, quote, "Detail in History." But he kept running this anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, populist unapologetic xenophobic far right party in French politics.

Rachel Maddow

#37. The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores.

A.E. Samaan

#38. The world is now changing, reviving fears that were familiar in Hitler's time, and to which Hitler responded. The history of the Holocaust is not over. Its precedent is eternal, and its lessons have not yet been learned.

Timothy Snyder

#39. With the publication of this book we, as non-Jews, are doing our small part to stand up for the truth. So let us state unequivocally here and now: the Holocaust happened EXACTLY as per the history books. Period. Fact. No debate whatsoever.

James Morcan

#40. 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

#41. This is the biggest cemetery for Jews, Poles, Roma and Sinti. It must tell us that we have to come back here again and again. We must keep the memory of the worst crime in human history alive for those who were born later.

Horst Kohler

#42. The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history

Charles Kennedy

#43. I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.

Amy Heckerling

#44. Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.

Elie Wiesel

#45. It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

Gene Simmons

#46. The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

Dan C. Quayle

#47. I became a Libertarian as a result of researching WWII and the Holocaust. Individual liberty is sacred.

A.E. Samaan

#48. Of the tens of thousands of words spoken during the Nuremberg Nazi trial, the word "eugenics" was said only once.

A.E. Samaan

#49. I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us.

Ralph Webster

#50. The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.

Linda Chavez

#51. I believe that the Holocaust is the most significant event in human history.

James Comey

#52. There is no answer to Auschwitz ... To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#53. Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing by the day, and the reality that the Holocaust is fading into the pages of history and memory, we should not have to wait any longer.

Abraham Foxman

#54. Nothing in recent history makes any sense without a deep understanding of WWII and The Holocaust.

A.E. Samaan

#55. The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death that enabled future generations of Israelis to live.

Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

#56. The [Nuremberg Trial was] the biggest legal farce in history ... the legend about six million supposedly murdered Jews acquired a legal basis, even though the court did not have a single document signed by A. Hitler concerning the extermination of Jews ...

Rick Sanchez

#57. I was once a statist, and then I researched The Holocaust. I am now a Libertarian.

A.E. Samaan

#58. History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.

Jodi Picoult

#59. A proud Jew after all that had happened to them over a period of history, for geography.

Aporva Kala

#60. The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.

Jamaica Kincaid

#61. The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp.

Timothy Snyder