Fragments of Isabella Quotes

“Does staying alive not only for yourself, but also because someone else expects you to, double the life force? Perhaps. Perhaps. Rachel,”
― Isabella Leitner, Fragments of Isabella: A Memoir of Auschwitz

“Sometimes I was resentful. Must she care about everyone in this world? Look at me! Praise me! I want to be the most important! Why do you care so much about so many things? But now, so many years later, I say: Thank you, Mother, for being what you were, for trying to develop me in every way. Kisv”
― Isabella Leitner, Fragments of Isabella: A Memoir of Auschwitz

“The day we arrived in Auschwitz, there were so many people to be burned that the four crematoriums couldn’t handle the task. So the Germans built big open fires to throw the children in.”
― Isabella Leitner, Fragments of Isabella: A Memoir of Auschwitz