I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

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

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.

Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.