Quotes
Joel 2 ii – iii
“… Has the like of this happened in your days or in the days of your fathers? Tell your children about it and let their children tell theirs, and their children the next generation…”
Edmund Burke
“All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”
The Talmud
“Whoever saves a single life is as one who has saved an entire nation”
The Stockholm declaration
“ The horrors that engulfed the Jewish people and other victims of the Nazis must forever be seared in our collective memory.”
Taoiseach, John Bruton, 1995
“We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century”
Elie Wiesel
“It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims”
Martin Niemöller
“First they came for the Communists
But I was not a Communist, so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Socialists and Trade Unionists
But I was not a Socialist or Trade Unionist, so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Jews
But I was not a Jew, so I did not speak out.
Then they came for me
But by then there was no one left to speak out for me.”
Yehuda Bauer, 2001
“The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn’t. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.”
