Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust

by Renee Hartman

I felt so grateful that despite the misery and deaths of the Holocaust, nature had remained alive and flowers still grew.

Not only did we have to get used to war, which was unbearable—but now we had to get used to peace, which was unbelievable.

It’s impossible to be indifferent to sorrow and pain.

The Holocaust was a tragedy so vast, so immense, that even those who experienced it have a hard time accepting what their eyes have seen.