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We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
I’m Miss Holocaust, 1945.
Shalom Auslander • Hope: A Tragedy
Anna Högerle
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“Hitler killed five million [sic] Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.....It would have aroused the world and the people of Germany.... As it is they succumbed anyway in their millions.”
Gandhi on the Holocaust
Corrie ten Boom’s story
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
Bettelheim himself was not among them. Caught in Austria when Hitler annexed it, he was sent first to Dachau and then to Buchenwald, but was then released in a mass amnesty to celebrate Hitler’s birthday in 1939 — an extraordinary reprieve, after which he left at once for America.
Sarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
The Danes, alone among European societies, refused to participate in the deportation of their Jews, almost all of whom survived.
Max Hastings • Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
The Keeper of the Glass House: A WWII Historical Fiction Novel Based on a True Story of a Holocaust Survivor
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