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.

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

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

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.

Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.

God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.