“That SS officer in the muddy barack must have been lying: Auschwitz was, after all, a convalescent home…”

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

"I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I had no more tears."

“Jealousy devoured us, consumed us.”

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

"Bread, soup - these were my entire life. I was nothing but a body. Perhaps even less: a famished stomach."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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