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

Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.

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

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

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.

None of my 'clients' - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics, maybe just a Jewish prostitute.