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“Lale’s memories were, on the whole, remarkably clear and precise. They matched my research into people, dates, and places. Was this a comfort? Getting to know a person for whom such terrible facts has been a lived a reality made them all the more horrific.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz By Heather Morris & Milkman By Anna Burns 2 Books Collection Set

“Yes I don’t like to live here,’ she said, more to herself than me. Then she turned toward me: ‘But if I have learned anything from my life, it’s that since I don’t belong anywhere, only the movement matters.”
― Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

“But the soldiers are no longer people either, except they are less aware of it. they too are prisoners without any individuality, without a face. Their bodies, their willpower belongs to somebody else—to the army, to the leader, to the nation. They obey and execute the orders of people in whom they believe or are afraid of. For a moment, standing there at the doorstep of the 'women's room', they believe that they are something else. The masters. Do they know that they cannot run away from the war, that they cannot hide, that they too can be killed.”
― Slavenka Drakulić, S.

“Politics will help you understand the world until you don’t understand it anymore, and then it will get you thrown into a prison camp. Politics and religion both.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz