Kat Bjornstad

“But I suppose love doesn't stop, even in wars. There's only so much time a day that you can spend being terrified of something before your instinct to feel natural human emotions would kick in.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

“I didn't know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“As always when men have too much to say to one another, they found no words. But the inexpressible thing that was taking place outside was uttered in Krämer's rough heartiness and Runki's clumsy tenderness, and the noise and the shots around the camp gave it its meaning.
Krämer closed his eyes.”
― Bruno Apitz

“We ended up in the Pilsen repatriation camp. There, one of the employees said: “We don’t repatriate Jews, just prisoners of war.” The prisoners stood up for us, refused to leave without us.”
― Marceline Loridan-Ivens