HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR QUOTES

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” – Elie Wiesel

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” – Elie Wiesel

“I can’t forget, but let the world make sure it never happens again.” – Anne Frank

“What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.” – Elie Wiesel

“We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.” – Elie Wiesel

“In the concentration camps, we discovered that we could endure much more than we thought we could.” – Gerda Weissmann Klein

“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” – Anne Frank

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” – Elie Wiesel “When we die, our bodies turn to dust and our actions turn to ashes, but our words live on forever.” – Elie Wiesel

“The Holocaust teaches us that no society is immune to prejudice and discrimination.” – Deborah Lipstadt

“I attribute my survival to luck, to coincidence, to miracles.” – Elie Wiesel

“It’s up to us to decide in our daily lives how to heed the famous phrase by Edmund Burke: ‘All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.'” – Gerda Weissmann Klein QUOTES OVER REIZEN

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” – Elie Wiesel

“Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.” – Elie Wiesel

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” – Elie Wiesel

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it – always.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“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.” – Elie Wiesel

“The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.” – Elie Wiesel

“Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.” – Elie Wiesel

“It’s in human nature to honor, above all, what remains forever elusive and mysterious.” – Elie Wiesel

“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

“I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.” – Elie Wiesel

“To be silent is impossible. To speak, forbidden.” – Leon Leyson