The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.
Elie WieselIn the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
Elie WieselThe American and the British armies liberated camps, there wasn't a single order of the day: Let's go and liberate the camp. They stumbled upon the camps. Same thing with the Russians, I asked the Colonel who liberated Auschwitz, they didn't, there wasn't a priority. But I feel that that was a mistake, it was a sin because they could have saved so many people and they didn't.
Elie Wiesel