The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

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.

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.