The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

For me the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy. After the war, when I saw that the Jews were talking only about the tragedy of six million Jews, I sent letters to Jewish organizations asking them to talk also about the millions of others who were persecuted with us together - many of them only because they helped Jews.

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.