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Unresolved History: Jews and Lithuanians After the Holocaust
youtube.comHe 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.
Nechama Tec • Defiance
There was a measure of similarity in the way average Germans and average Jews reacted.
Saul Friedlander • Nazi Germany and the Jews: 1933-1945
Himmler: “I have made the decision to annihilate every Jewish child from the face of the earth.”
Paul Auster • The Invention of Solitude
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Löwy Juval • Righting Software
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.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz – Costa Book of the Year 2019
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A major factor in the colossal moral failures which made the Shoah possible was the nonresponse of the bystanders.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
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.