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“They are holding something that’s absolutely forbidden in Auschwitz. These items, so dangerous that their mere possession is a death sentence, cannot be fired, nor do they have a sharp point, a blade, or a heavy end. These items, which the relentless guards of the Reich fear so much, are nothing more than books: old, unbound, with missing pages, and in tatters.”
― Lilit Thwaites, The Librarian of Auschwitz

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“It doesn’t matter how many schools the Nazis close, he would say to them. Each time someone stops to tell a story and children listen, a school has been established.”
― Lilit Thwaites, The Librarian of Auschwitz

“Books are extremely dangerous; they make people think.”
― Lilit Thwaites, The Librarian of Auschwitz