Charlotte Delbo quotes

“I died in Auschwitz, but no one knows it”
-- Charlotte Delbo

Source : Charlotte Delbo, Rosette C. Lamont (1997). “Auschwitz and After”, p.267, Yale University Press

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“I'm not alive. People believe memories grow vague, are erased by time, since nothing endures against the passage of time. That's the difference; time does not pass over me, over us. It doesn't erase anything, doesn't undo it. I'm not a live. I died in Auschwitz but no one knows it.”
-- Charlotte Delbo

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“After Auschwitz, I no longer cry at funerals.”
-- Charlotte Delbo

Source : Charlotte Delbo (1995). “Auschwitz and After”, p.339, Yale University Press

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“No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.”

“I died in Auschwitz, but no one knows it”

Source : Charlotte Delbo, Rosette C. Lamont (1997). “Auschwitz and After”, p.267, Yale University Press

“Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.”

“Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.”

Source : "Still bolshie after all these years" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2000.

“Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.”

“The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.”

Source : Ian Kershaw (2002). “Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich, Bavaria 1933-1945”, p.277, Oxford University Press

“There is no German identity without Auschwitz,”

“There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.”

Source : "Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life by Berel Lang - review" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2014.

“Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.”

“There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.”

Source : "A Chameleon on Show" by Benjamin Ivry, forward.com. January 12, 2011.