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

Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.

I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

[Moses] Mendelssohn was a religious Jew. I felt sorry for him.

All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to remember more - more and more. It's never enough because we feel that we have to tell the story. And no one can tell the story fully.