Occupation: Chemist Birth: July 31, 1919 Death: April 11, 1987
If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a moment of angu….
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need..
I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day..
Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence..
If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?.
It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only exit is by way of the Chimney. (What di….
The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat..
The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is bein….
If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer..
The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if th….
They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would prove ….
Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human….
Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendelee….
The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general i….
It is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done, because what could be perpetrated yesterday co….
Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself..
We collected in a group in front of their door, and we experienced within ourselves a grief that was new for us, the ancient grief of the people that….
This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slav….
After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its calculations w….
An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy..
My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die..