Sublime

He would openly insist that saving lives was more important than anything else. He would repeat over and over that it was better to save one Jew than to kill twenty Germans.

There was a measure of similarity in the way average Germans and average Jews reacted.

Himmler: “I have made the decision to annihilate every Jewish child from the face of the earth.”

Historical Records

The prisoner of Auschwitz, in the first phase of shock, did not fear death. Even the gas chambers lost their horrors for him after the first few days—after all, they spared him the act of committing suicide.

A major factor in the colossal moral failures which made the Shoah possible was the nonresponse of the bystanders.

By the second half of 1943, the Holocaust was no longer considered a big story. Berl Katznelson, the editor of Davar, thought that the public was not interested in reading about the annihilation of the Jews.