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The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time.

It seems unavoidable that history will always link the reestablishment of the State of Israel with the tragedy of the Holocaust.

We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Jewish history has been in my cultural DNA since I was a child growing up in post-war London. In the midst of that dark, gray, lamenting monochromatic world of the '50s, I had a sense that both Jewish and English history were full of color and light and animation.