After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two Book 1)

by Eva Schloss

‘Everything you do leaves something behind; nothing gets lost. All the good you have accomplished will continue in the lives of the people you have touched. It will make a difference to someone, somewhere, sometime, and your achievements will be carried on. Everything is connected like a chain that cannot be broken.’

in terms of our humanity, it seems that thousands of years of experience have led to little progress.

people have a unique capacity for cruelty, brutality and sheer indifference to human suffering. It is easy to say that good and evil exist within each of us but I have seen the unedifying reality of that at close hand, and it has led me to a lifetime of wondering about the human soul.

You believe that you will always remember clearly the people you love – but as time passes you start to remember only the memory of your memories.