Sara Leibovits

“I am in the pit, and I am screaming. If I am screaming – I am alive. If I am alive – how and why am I in the pit? My family and friends are not in the pit And they are not alive. I heard their last cry. They did not die and were not buried, Instead, they were poisoned and strangled. I did not bury my loved ones, I did not mourn, did not cry, Did not rend my clothes1, Did not sit shiva2 for them, Did not say Kaddish3 for them. There is no dead body, no funeral, I put up no tombstone, because there is no grave. I carry their memory within me.”
― Sara Leibovits, The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz

“this is what life is like – sadness alongside laughter, mourning alongside joy – and one must know how to take charge of them and bring them into your life in the proper doses, so as not to become submerged on either side.”
― Sara Leibovits, One Girl in Auschwitz: A WW2 Jewish Girl's Holocaust Survival True Story