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Holocaust
The mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II.
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Then for the first time we became aware that our language lacks words to express this offence, the demolition of a man. In a moment, with almost prophetic intuition, the reality was revealed to us: we had reached the bottom. It is not possible to sink lower than this; no human condition is more miserable than this, nor could it conceivably be so. Nothing belongs to us any more; they have taken away our clothes, our shoes, even our hair; if we speak, they will not listen to us, and if they listen
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― If This Is a Man • The Truce
― If This Is a Man • The Truce
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And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being. Crusoe cheered himself by thinking that such a thing could happen any day, and it kept him going. But if any of the people now around me came near I would need to run for it and hide in mortal terror. I had to be alone, entirely alone, if I wanted to live.
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― The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
― The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
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