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.

There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain, like everything else, suggests permanence and eternity. I say to myself: it's raining today and it's going to rain tomorrow and the next day, the next week and the next century.

A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.