Kit Sergeant > Quotes

“It’s up to us to create a world where this can’t happen again. A world where respect, dignity, and humanity aren’t just empty words.”
― Kit Sergeant, The Doctor of Auschwitz: The Powerful True Story of One Woman's Courage

“We’d heard whispers about deportations, but I never imagined they would come for us in our own homes. Or that our own country would turn us over to them…”
― Kit Sergeant, The Doctor of Auschwitz: The Powerful True Story of One Woman's Courage

“She gathered up her skirts, but Elizabeth put a gently restraining hand on Sally’s arm. “As your brother might say, a silent mouth means an open ear,” she told the younger woman.”
― Kit Sergeant, 355: The Women of Washington's Spy Ring

“Though Hitler and the Nazi regime gave the orders, such horrors could never have unfolded without the complicity of the millions who obeyed them,”
― Kit Sergeant, The Doctor of Auschwitz: The Powerful True Story of One Woman's Courage

“If she remained silent now, while the world was trying to rewrite what had happened, the lesson would be lost—and everything she’d endured would have been for nothing.”
― Kit Sergeant, The Doctor of Auschwitz: The Powerful True Story of One Woman's Courage

“because the world recognized that some orders are too monstrous to obey.”
― Kit Sergeant, The Doctor of Auschwitz: The Powerful True Story of One Woman's Courage

“her left knee was pulled out of its socket.”
― Kit Sergeant, L'Agent Double: Spies and Martyrs in World War 1

“Every time they absolve themselves of any wrongdoing by saying they are only following orders, people like Samuel move closer toward a point of no return—until one day they cross over the threshold of evil.”
― Kit Sergeant, The Doctor of Auschwitz: The Powerful True Story of One Woman's Courage

“The war must be over soon: humanity cannot stand much more of it.” As she watched him leave, Marthe thought to herself there wasn’t much left of humanity.”
― Kit Sergeant, L'Agent Double: Spies and Martyrs in World War 1

“Although he was older by three years, Marthe had always been the more responsible sibling. Some things never changed.”
― Kit Sergeant, L'Agent Double: Spies and Martyrs in World War 1

“her room, she unfolded the”
― Kit Sergeant, 355: The Women of Washington's Spy Ring

“It is because I have a child that I fight,” Cécile had told her mother. “This is not a world I wish her to grow up in.”
― Kit Sergeant, The Doctor of Auschwitz: The Powerful True Story of One Woman's Courage