Dan Kurzman > Quotes

“Why did Iwanski risk so much to save Jews? He told the author, "When a Jew cries, I cry. When a Jew suffers, I am a Jew. All are of my nation, for I am a man.”
― Dan Kurzman, The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

“At the age of ten, on Armistice Day, Alex trekked miles from his home in Washington, D.C., to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia to attend a ceremony at the grave of the Unknown Soldier. Who was the man being honored? What religion? What race? No one knew. All anybody knew was that he was an American hero. And that was, it seemed, how it should be. This was true brotherhood.”
― Dan Kurzman, No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains and the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II

“It was more profitable building a bridge between riverbanks than between different races and religions.”
― Dan Kurzman, No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains and the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II

“We can build such a sanctuary by returning to the fundamental pleasures of home and family, of good books, and most important, to the joy of worshiping God. If our happiness is dependent upon these, the outside world can tumble about us and we can still have peace.”
― Dan Kurzman, No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains and the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II

“Why did Iwanski risk so much to save Jews? He told the author, "When a Jew cries, I cry. When a Jew suffers, I am a Jew. All are of my nation, for I am a man."i”
― Dan Kurzman, The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

“His father was numbed with astonishment. “Mighty little do I know about God,” he finally replied. “[But] what I do know about God changes my life.”
― Dan Kurzman, No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains and the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II

“Princess Enza Pignatelli Aragona—friend of Pope Pius XII”
― Dan Kurzman, A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII