When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.

I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

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

I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.