Phrases
- fascism turns everyone into a slave. The slaves first. Then the captors who have no choice but to be a captor
- Couldn’t even escape because he’d be shot at by other people who were afraid.
- Why would you argue with a loved one? Argue instead with the person who litters. There’s no time for arguing with a loved one.
- I chose to be the happiest man on earth. There could not be a sweeter revenge against people who wanted to take away everything
- I don’t believe the world is only full of hate. I don’t blame any survivor who has that opinion. The are many who struggle like that. They were liberated from physical captivity but their hearts were broken.
- just do good work. Take pride in doing meaningful work in your life.
2024-03-15
- he escaped and was shot at and returned
- 1 hour of rest is two days of survival. Conserving energy.
- Running to the wire.
- I could not have survived without friends. Without Kurt.
- Shave heads to be free from lice.
- Bromide in the coffee. Chemically castrate.
- one louse meant the whole house to be burned.
- Examined by the weight of your buttocks
- The body is the best machine.
- “Don’t you have a soul?” → he wasn’t so courageous when he was alone. He never hit me again.
- My education saved me.
- Where there is hope there is life.
- I know many who took their own life when they were liberated because they had nothing to live for.
- Hides in a sewage pipe.
- Crawled out of a cave to a road.
- Finds Kurt. Always a miracle.
- Old anti semitic attitudes are hard to fade. “Greedy Jews” after he gets a job.
- Sulfer baths.
- Rescues 3 women from suicide. Duty of the fortunate to help the suffering. Simple act of kindness → saved the life of these women.
- Found someone in his suit.
Happiness - you’ll never be happy with comparison. - Loved saved me. - Happiness comes from inside. Happiness doubles each time you share it.
2024-03-14
- Germans made a religion of logic, and it turned them cruel
- The dichotomy that you could be fined 200 franks for littering a cigarette butt and yet they threw children into the river,
- Crystallnacht. Broken glass.
- What would have happened had he not returned home that night?
- “I made the worst decision”. It’s what you say, but the decision itself to visit family was perhaps a good one. Resulting.
- “Are you hungry?” → the French did the most to help Jews.
- 1936 for Spanish people leaving the Spanish civil war.
- 15,000 prison
- Trains filled with fumes
- Doctor who used a razor to suicide over a latrine
- 2.5 months to walk through France, to get caught while using the toilet. Parachuter.
- Escape bottom of train. Week hopping on and off trains.
- Train car with 44 liters of water for the whole train. His dad rationed 155 cups.
- “go tell your mother how much you love her. Do it for your new friend, Eddie, who cannot”. Sent to gas chambers.
- How could Hitler make enemies of friends, then civilized men into inhuman zombies. How could Hitler create such hate?
- Go to sleep naked. Wake up with naked
- Rags were more precious than gold.
- Germans were detailed and record keepers, which made them killers.
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