“What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.” – Elie Wiesel
“Don’t let your children visit an extermination camp as a leasurly trip. Those are places you go in pilgrimage. You visit such places with a humble look, better if in winter with very light garments, having not eaten the day before, having been hungry for the past several hours. ” – Liliana Segre
“A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.”
– Primo Levi
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
– Primo Levi
One day there won’t be any Holocaust survivor left, so it will be our duty to keep the memory alive. We – who were not there – will need and have to remember.
The end of the year is the perfect moment to have a look at how our endeavours are fairing, and since this blog is one of my chief endeavours, I thought I should have a look at how it’s doing.
It had never occurred to me so far, you know, to have a look at Google…