Occupation: Writer Birth: November 12, 1922 Death: July 3, 1951
It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity..
Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death..
The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as the other. The world is….
What a curious power words have..
And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to endure a day without a book, without the circle o….
neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth -- that's the way home. neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new gr….
A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures as when what he feels ….
Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to the S.S. men returning from the litt….
I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the most important thing on earth, and t….
Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat..
There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it..
The world is ruled by power and power is obtained by money..
I risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened..