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It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

— Gene Simmons

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✓Similar Perspectives

I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call the Holocaust. It was this dark topic that I would know more about when I got older, but which was spoken about in hushed tones.

— Elliot Perlman

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.

— Aharon Appelfeld

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.

— Rhea Perlman

Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.

— Eli Roth

The Holocaust of Nazi Germany is certainly no less of a historic crime than the Holocaust that went on for centuries against African-Americans. That process of reparations, and a truth and reconciliation discussion, was extremely helpful in the country of Germany, and we need to have that here.

— Jill Stein

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

— Dan Quayle

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

— Elie Wiesel

✗Opposing Perspectives

As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

— Eugene Jarecki

Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

— Norman Finkelstein

My grandmother - my mother's mother - was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17.

— Sarah Gavron