After Auschwitz Quotes

“Everything you do leaves something behind; nothing gets lost. All the good you have accomplished will continue in the lives of the people you have touched. It will make a difference to someone, somewhere, sometime, and your achievements will be carried on. Everything is connected like a chain that cannot be broken.’ In”
― Eva Schloss, After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank

“—Siempre hay esperanza —les dije—, incluso cuando la vida parece desoladora. Hay que tener la voluntad y la fuerza para cambiar de vida, y conseguir lo que nos propongamos.”
― Eva Schloss, Después de Auschwitz

“My father gathered us together on the sofa and wrapped us up in his arms. He told us that we were links in a chain, and that we would live on through our children.

"But what if we don't have any children?" Heinz asked.

"Children, I promise you this, " my father said. "Everything you do leaves something behind; nothing gets lost. All the good you have accomplished will continue in the lives of the people you have touched. It will make a difference to someone, somewhere, sometime, and your achievements will be carried on. Everything is connected like a chain that cannot be broken.”
― Eva Schloss, After Auschwitz

“Recuerdo la nocturna procesión de niños y más niños, tan asustados, tan callados, tan bonitos. Si pudiéramos ver tan solo a uno de ellos se nos partiría el alma. En cambio a los asesinos no se les partió el alma. Más duro, sin embargo, es haberlo vivido.”
― Eva Schloss, After Auschwitz

“Yo estaba viva, pero tendría que reaprender a vivir para hacerme un lugar dentro de un mundo que a menudo no querría conocer los horrores que yo había presenciado.”
― Eva Schloss, After Auschwitz

“A lo largo de mi vida he visto avances técnicos increíbles. Cuando nací era raro tener un coche con motor, pero en la época en que cumplí cuarenta años el ser humano había aterrizado en la Luna. Curamos enfermedades, fabricamos armas nucleares, conocemos el mapa de nuestro ADN, navegamos por la red informática y desarrollamos alimentos y medicinas genéticamente modificados. [...] Sin embargo, en términos de humanidad, parece que en miles de años de experiencia hemos avanzado bien poco.”
― Eva Schloss, After Auschwitz

“A few months ago I finished speaking, and looked down at a class of schoolchildren. A Somali girl with dark eyes hesitantly put her hand up and asked, 'Do you think it will happen again?' I can't answer that, but maybe you can. Will it? I hope not.”
― Eva Schloss, After Auschwitz

“that however deep your despair, there is always hope. Life is very precious and beautiful – and no one should waste it.”
― Eva Schloss, After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank

“The wife of camp commandant Rudolf Höss cautioned her children always to wash the strawberries they grew in the garden of their villa; the fruit was covered in a grey soot from the crematoria next door.”
― Eva Schloss, After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank

“Many returned after the war to reap the gruesome rewards of what has been called a ‘golden harvest’, digging up the remains of the victims and sifting through the ash and bones to find any gold teeth or valuable materials that had been overlooked when their bodies and possessions had first been looted by the Nazis.”
― Eva Schloss, After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank

“Auschwitz had originally been a Polish town called O´swie˛cim with 12,000 people of whom 5,000 were Jews. Most of those people had been moved out of their homes after the Germans invaded, renamed the town and built and expanded the camp across a huge area.”
― Eva Schloss, After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank

“One of the main reasons why Auschwitz had been chosen as the site for a large camp was good railway connections, and sprawling tracks and roads spread out in different directions. The road from the station forked in two – one way to the men’s camp at Auschwitz, and the other to the women’s camp at Birkenau.”
― Eva Schloss, After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank

“Our worst fears had come to pass. As of 15 May 1940 we were living under Nazi occupation, and we had nowhere else to go.”
― Eva Schloss, After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank

“Al amanecer recorría el camino yermo hasta el trabajo notando la llegada del invierno y sumida en la desesperación. ¿Qué valor tenía la vida? ¿Qué importaba que una persona fuera buena o mala? ¿Qué consuelo podía hallarse en "Dios"?”
― Eva Schloss, After Auschwitz