I Want You to Know We’re Still Here Quotes

“Se niente importa, non c'è niente da salvare.”
― Esther Safran Foer, I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir

“There are no tombstones to mark the graves, so at least on these pages, the names reside.”
― Esther Safran Foer, I Want You to Know We're Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir

“these inherited memories—traumatic fragments of events—defy narrative reconstruction.”
― Esther Safran Foer, I Want You to Know We're Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir

“The idea is that traumatic memories live on from one generation to the next, even if the later generation was not there to experience these events directly”
― Esther Safran Foer, I Want You to Know We're Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir