Gina

“People expect me to be angry at what was taken from us, and them, but anger is like a rocking chair. You keep moving, but it doesn't take you anywhere. Our job is not to exact revenge, but to repair our communities.”
― Josef Lewkowicz, The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“He had had reason before to contemplate this difficult but stubborn fact: that human beings find it almost impossible to conceive of their own death. After all, one of Rudi’s fellow Auschwitz escapees had encountered this phenomenon directly and within months of his escape. In a desperate turn of events, Czesław Mordowicz was caught by the Gestapo in late 1944 and put on a transport that would send him back to Auschwitz. Inside the cattle truck, he told his fellow deportees that he knew what awaited them. ‘Listen,’ he pleaded, ‘you are going to your death.’ Czesław urged the people jammed into the wagon to join him and jump off the moving train. They refused. Instead they began shouting, banging on the doors and calling the German guards. They attacked Mordowicz and beat him so badly, he was all but incapacitated. He never did leap off that train, but ended up back in Birkenau. All because he had given a warning that the warned could not believe and did not want to hear.”
― Jonathan Freedland, The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

“It was never If we returned to the outside. It was always When. In this there was probably the most important aspect of our survival: hope.”
― Krystyna Chiger, The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow