Phrases on the Shoah for children and teenagers

Phrases on the Shoah for children and teenagers
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The most touching sentences on the Shoah

January 27 is the Memorial Day, an international anniversary for commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. Here are the most touching and beautiful phrases on the Shoah for children and teenagers to remember on this day.





Phrases by Primo Levi

  • "The Holocaust is a page of the book of Humanity from which we will never have to remove the bookmark of memory".
    Primo Levi
  • "If understanding is impossible, knowing is necessary, because what happened can return, consciences can be seduced and obscured again: ours too".
    Primo Levi, "If this is a man"
  • "Memory is like the sea: it can return shreds of scrap years later".
    Primo Levi
  • "It easily happens to those who have lost everything to lose themselves."
    Primo Levi
  • "All those who forget their past are doomed to relive it."
    Primo Levi
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Phrases from the Diary of Anne Frank

  • "The truth is all the more difficult to hear the longer it is kept silent."
    From the "Diary of Anne Frank"
  • "What happened cannot be undone, but it can be prevented from happening again."
    Anne Frank

Other phrases about the Shoah

  • "Today more than ever, it is necessary that young people know, understand and understand: it is the only way to hope that that unspeakable horror will not repeat itself, it is the only way to get us out of the darkness".
    Elisa Springer
  • "The Shoah, as the Holocaust is called in the Jewish context, a term in its own improper way, was an unprecedented event because the extermination, the annihilation of a people as such had never been decided at the table."
    Elena Loewenthal
  • "Maybe I will not do important things, but history is made up of small anonymous gestures, maybe tomorrow I will die, maybe before that German, but all the things I will do before I die and my death itself will be bits of history, and all thoughts what I'm doing now affect my history of tomorrow, tomorrow's history of mankind. "
    Italo Calvino, "The path of the spider's nests"

  • "Memory is crucial. It is crucial because I am rich in memories and the man who has no memory is a poor man".
    Mario Rigoni Stern
  • "If with the Holocaust God chose to question man, it is up to him to respond with a search that has God as its object".
    Elie Wiesel
  • "We are our memory,
    we are this chimeric museum of fickle forms,
    this pile of broken mirrors. "
    Jorge Luis Borges
  • "Progress, far from allowing change, depends on the ability to remember ... Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it".
    George Santayana
  • "We are the memory we have and the responsibility we take on. Without memory we do not exist and without responsibility perhaps we do not deserve to exist".
    Jose Saramago
  • "We all need memory. It keeps the wolf of insignificance out the door."
    Saul bellow
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