Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor Quotes

“Stories from concentration camps bring nightmares to adults as if they were helpless little children.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“The Nazi State came to power with a radical discourse and attitude from the very beginning. It was clearly built to put an end to diversity and control people through a dangerous ideology. Those acts of horror that the Nazis were implementing had been largely accepted and supported by the vast majority of the German population, all for the sake of economic growth.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“Society should be alarmed when ideology becomes so deep seated that it supports barbarians with such an abominable purpose.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“Stories from concentration camps bring nightmares to adults as if they were helpless little children. And if adults have trouble processing it all, imagine what it is like for little kids.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“Unfortunately, there is no delete button for the mind.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“Since there was not a calendar we could not tell what day of the month or the week it was. Even though we knew the exact date of our birth, we could not really celebrate it. How could we celebrate someone’s birthday when there were more chances of death instead of life? People passed away and we did not even have time to mourn; we had to move on and try to survive to see another day.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“What shocked us the most was that the Nazis kept a clear conscience while resorting to brutality, because they truly believed they were doing a good deed in the name of Germany. Society should be alarmed when ideology becomes so deep seated that it supports barbarians with such an abominable purpose.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“Hitler would not have done it all by himself: for this horror to take root, it took millions of blind people who were indoctrinated by the Führer’s ideas—and sometimes these ideas resonated with their own.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“Bergen-Belsen was not an extermination camp but its conditions did not allow for survival either. What do we need to survive? Proper food and good hygiene. Neither was available in Bergen-Belsen or any other concentration camp. Their intention was to wear out people little by little, so they would not have any strength left to live.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“Sometimes we, human beings, tend to believe we have no strength left to endure certain events that are imposed on us. When that happens, there is nothing else we can do but move forward.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“The camp had a main path with barracks on both sides. I looked around and saw some guards and watchtowers. It was the somber, solitary backdrop of a prison. Who was paying for all that? Literally, we were, because camp maintenance and expansion were being financed with properties confiscated from the Jewish people.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“To this day, I still cannot understand how Hitler got away with it. He transformed men and women into brutal animals without any sense of humanity. That is only one of the many things I still wonder about.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“Anne Frank disappeared one day, too. She and her family went into hiding in early July 1942 and started to live in a secret annex located at her father’s company Opekta Werke, which made ingredients for fruit jam. The word out in the street was that they had run away, but nobody knew for sure.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“You must make the most out of good, happy times! We never know what will happen next, and never could we have imagined what was about to happen to us.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“The price of freedom is everlasting vigilance. As the Spanish philosopher and poet George Santayana once said, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“war is only good for one thing: to bring about destruction.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“the Nazis”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“the Holocaust is still a very current topic that must be remembered forever.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“maybe a cowardly”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“Haas went to the battlefront and would not survive the war,”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“Jewish people were the main victims of the Nazi hate”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“Everyone who went to other camps”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“SS, or Schutzstaffel,”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“To this day, I still cannot understand how Hitler got away with it.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“during his time in prison,”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“was antisemitism,”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“believe it happened.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“but the world still suffers with so many wars.”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“Hitler had”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank

“Segregation had”
― Nanette Blitz Konig, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank