Rebecca Frankel > Quotes

“People have been trying to understand dogs ever since the beginning of time. One never knows what they’ll do. You can read every day where a dog saved the life of a drowning child, or lay down his life for his master. Some people call this loyalty. I don’t. I may be wrong, but I call it love—the deepest kind of love. . . . It’s a shame that people all over the world can’t have that kind of love in their hearts. . . . There would be no wars, slaughter, or murder; no greed or selfishness. It would be the kind of world that God wants us to have—a wonderful world. —Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows”
― Rebecca Frankel, War Dogs: Tales of Canine Heroism, History, and Love

“outhouse”
― Rebecca Frankel, Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love

“Jews who survived the forest did so by numbing themselves to the traumas that had forced them there. Now that they were no longer consumed by the all-encompassing daily fight to survive, the sting of loss began to prickle, like a sleeping limb unfolding, coming awake with full sensation.”
― Rebecca Frankel, Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love

“indeed members of the Socialist Party and representatives on the political left condemned, even protested, the brutalities against Jews”
― Rebecca Frankel, Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love