Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

I have absolutely no problem with the young Germans. I even feel sorry for the young Germans because to be maybe sons or daughters of killers is different than them to be sons and daughters of the victims. And I felt sorry for them. I still do.

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.