The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.

I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest. The essential questions have no answers. You are my question, and I am yours - and then there is dialogue. The moment we have answers, there is no dialogue. Questions unite people.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

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