Zalmen Gradowski > Quotes

“There above, from the deep blackness there, are heard the cries of millions, sobbing and groaning, voices of the murdered children, millions of innocents, burned to death on earth. We will pursue you forever. Your light will not shine down upon this earthly world, not until we here above can have an answer for our blood.”
― Zalmen Gradowski, The Last Consolation Vanished: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz

“They want to live, for that indeed they all were born.”
― Zalmen Gradowski, The Last Consolation Vanished: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz

“And what is so horrible, so fearful to contemplate, our morals and ethics have also met their death here.”
― Zalmen Gradowski, The Last Consolation Vanished: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz