It takes more than a few generations to change a human nation. Those who are intent to bring (change) will do so.

Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.

In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.