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I will not dwell too long on the bitter theme of the many purely external difficulties with which the writer in exile must contend. I hope that those who have not experienced these difficulties…
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Lion Feuchtwanger
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1943
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People are forever quoting Talleyrand’s remark that language is only there in order to hide the thoughts of the diplomat (or for that matter of any other shrewd and dubious person). But in fact the…
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Victor Klemperer
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Dölzschen, East Germany
(Dölzschen, Germany)
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1947
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He pushed the button marked “Down.” He pushed again. The machine ignored the command. Slowly he pivoted his head back, staring up at the stainless-steel eyebrow just over the door. No movement of…
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Thane Rosenbaum
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New York, United States of America
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1996
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We, the screamers, have been at it now for about ten years. We started on the night when the epileptic van der Lubbe set fire to the German Parliament; we said that if you don’t quench those flames at…
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Arthur Koestler
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New York City, United States of America
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1944
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A few days before the surrender of Germany, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, then Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, sent out a call to American newspaper editors which may be…
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David P. Boder
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Chicago, United States of America
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1949
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Was there an element of cowardice in the attitude of the Jewish masses, who preferred to suffer the worst degradation rather than revolt? Given the terrible conditions created by the fierce anti…
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Jean-François Steiner
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1967
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The book being presented to the reader represents a selection of a thousand autobiographies composed by Jewish children, survivors of the conflagration, tender children who lived for months and even…
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Binyamin Tenenbaum
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1947
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[ . . . ] On a terribly cold winter night when a snowstorm was blowing, all prisoners were punished by being forced to stand at attention without overcoats—they never wore any—for hours. This was…
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Bruno Bettelheim
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Chicago, United States of America
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1943
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In attempting this psychological presentation and a psychopathological explanation of the typical characteristics of a concentration camp inmate, I may give the impression that the human being is…
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Viktor E. Frankl
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Vienna, Allied-occupied Austria
(Vienna, Austria)
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1946