Negar

“Lale makes a vow to himself: I will live to leave this place. I will walk out a free man. If there is a hell, I will see these murderers burn in it.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“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.

“The smell of deathly fear starts spreading from the still living person the moment the entire body knows that this is the end, although the mind keeps on hoping.”
― 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