I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

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

Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.