The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.

- Edgar Hilsenrath

The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.

- Edgar Hilsenrath

The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a ghetto.…

- Edgar Hilsenrath

Fame and me just don't go together. It's not always a fair process.

- Edgar Hilsenrath

I felt guilty because I survived.

- Edgar Hilsenrath

In Germany people want to make up to the Jews for what happened by idealizing them.

- Edgar Hilsenrath

I have to admit that I'm kind of afraid of Islam.

- Edgar Hilsenrath