Quotes that should never be forgotten

“Sooner or later in life, everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unreliable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unobtainable . . . Our ever-sufficient knowledge of the future opposes it and this is called in the one instance: hope.”
― Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

“I weep for my fate, for what I have left to see.”
― Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

“The past is gone. My life is a miracle! With gratitude to God, I am still here to remember and to tell what happened to me during the Holocaust of WWII.”
― Leah Cik Roth, My Eyes Looking Back at Me: Insight Into a Survivor’s Soul

“The Nazis not only had subtle ways of destroying human life and dignity, they were equally good at desecrating the graves of the dead ― something that is held sacred and ring-fenced with care within the culture of every single tribe and nation in the world.”
― Tadeusz Pankiewicz, The Cracow Ghetto Pharmacy

“Like many other survivors, I feel an obligation to tell my story again and again. The Holocaust was the scientifically designed, state-sponsored murder of the Jewish people by Nazi Germany and its allies. The Holocaust should never be forgotten and should never happen again.”
― Rena Finder, My Survival: A Girl on Schindler’s List

“People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism – even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn’t always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.”
– Jonathan Sacks

“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” .
– Elie Wiesel

Source: Brainy Quote