"The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You don’t die of it… (Poor Father! Of what then did you die?)"

“The race seemed endless; I felt as though I had been running for years..”

"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed."

“Jealousy devoured us, consumed us.”

“My father’s voice tore me from my daydreams…”

“I nodded, once, ten times, endlessly. As if my head had decided to say yes for all eternity.”

“My heart was about to burst. There. I was face-to-face with the Angel of Death…”

"Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today, anything is allowed. Anything is possible, even these crematories."

“The camp looked as though it had been through an epidemic: empty and dead.”

“And he himself was so thin, so withered, so weak…”

"The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference."

“As for my mother, she was walking, her face a mask without word, deep in thought”

“I was putting one foot in front of the other, like a machine. I was dragging this emancipated body that was still such a weight.”