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

God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

Even before I had had time to really think things through, I realized we must not forget. If all of us forgot, the same thing might happen again, in 20 or 50 or 100 years.

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

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