I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.
Elie WieselIf anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we'll have to fight again we wouldn't have believed it. Racism, anti-Semitism, starvation of children and, who would have believed that? At least I was convinced then, naively, that at least something happened in history that, because of myself, certain things cannot happen again.
Elie Wiesel