Outcry - Holocaust memoirs

Time is so long when there is suffering and so short when there is happiness.

Someday you will grow up and find that there will be times in your life that you will feel hatred and vengeance and then some days you will be forgiving and understanding.

prisoners talk, trying to figure out the

To live, that was all that mattered.

Time is long when you suffer and short when you are happy.

of WHY? and HOW CAN THE WORLD LET THIS HAPPEN? I thought of our beloved Rabbi, who had been tortured and killed.

It was with heart-felt gratitude to this country that had saved my life that I served in the U. S. Army to fight for freedom. Above all, I will forever remember those men that fought for the liberation of the European Jews and helped to ensure the freedom and democracy for the United States of America. God Bless. -

The depression was the great leveler of mankind. From this I learned a lot about human nature. With survival foremost in each person's mind, jealousy, envy and cowardice became apparent in our small community. Soup

burdens shared are always easier to bear.

Yesterday is in the past and we will never retrieve it, we can only move forward.

Time is long when you suffer and short when you are happy. We

Upon entering the town there was a Gestapo man with a noose around his neck, hanging for everyone to see. I went over and stared at this man dangling in the air, lifeless. I had no feelings one way or another for this man. I was numb in my heart. I tried to hate him and tell myself he was no good and deserved to die, but I felt empty inside. The only thing I noticed was his shoes that he wouldn't need any longer, so I untied them and put them on my feet.