The Journey Back From Hell Quotes

“All suffering is relative to experience, and life while it is
everything is also not much at all.”
― Anton Gill, The Journey Back From Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors

“The pain is still within me, but it has been a source of regeneration for me. And this is a crucial point in my work: the problem is not that one has pain, but what you do with it.”
― Anton Gill, The Journey Back From Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors

“I can say to myself, “You’ve been through that and you are alive and you have done all right.”
― Anton Gill, The Journey Back From Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors

“The memories are so strong that they annihilate the present, and that is of grave danger.”
― Anton Gill, The Journey Back From Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors

“The camps have a fascination in their revoltingness.”
― Anton Gill, The Journey Back From Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors

“Jewish tragedy, I think I must now say why I have not. It is quite correct that the bulk of attention given to the concentration camps should have centred upon the attempt by the Third Reich to eradicate the Jews, because there is no doubt that no other victims of the camps were so inexorably slated for death. The war Hitler waged against them was the one in which he was all but victor, and the one which he personally continued to press with unabated vigour, without regard for the practical considerations of defending his country, to the bitter end. In September 1939 the Jewish population of the Europe that Germany was to occupy and control for the next five years was 8,301,000. It was long established: the community in Greece was 2,200 years old; in Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Italy and Rumania the communities were not much younger. There had been Joys in Germany for 1,600 years, in Poland for 800. Jew-hatred was nothing new, and there had”
― Anton Gill, The Journey Back From Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors

“after I had calmed down my first thoughts were of my family who hadn’t made it, and I decided then, at that moment, that whatever else I did I would try to help other people for the rest of my days as a repayment for the gift of life which had been given back to me.”
― Anton Gill, The Journey Back From Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors

“I have never felt that the work is a burden; it is a duty — more than a duty, something I have to do.”
― Anton Gill, The Journey Back From Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors

“bromide derivative, or even a poison.[73] ‘Soup’ was the KZ staple, and was”
― Anton Gill, The Journey Back From Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors