The Woman with the Blue Star Quotes

“Because when people look back on the history of this time, at what happened, they should see that we tried to do something,”
― Pam Jenoff, The Woman with the Blue Star

“You need to do better,” Pan Rosenberg said before I could speak. He pointed upward. “Up there, almost no more Jews live.” He did not bother to spare me from the truth the way my parents and others had when I was younger. There was no safety in hiding things anymore. “We are the last of our kind and down here we are alive. You owe it to your parents to go on.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Woman with the Blue Star

“Living in occupied Kraków, I felt like a pet bird, able to fly just the tiniest bit, but always mindful of being trapped in a cage.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Woman with the Blue Star

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― Pam Jenoff, The Woman with the Blue Star

“rid of the Jews and turned them in to the Germans”
― Pam Jenoff, The Woman with the Blue Star

“made the fact that we were Jews undeniable.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Woman with the Blue Star

“date on such short notice.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Woman with the Blue Star

“When you are young, you expect the family you were born into to be yours forever.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Woman with the Blue Star

“Freedom is where you find it,” my father often said when I complained. Papa had a way of seeing the world exactly as he wanted. “The greatest prison is in our mind.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Woman with the Blue Star

“You must see yourself as you want others to see you,”
― Pam Jenoff, The Woman with the Blue Star

“So I came to find you to learn more about them, or at least about my sister. I would like to know her.” This is what I wanted, to find the last link to the sister I had never known and to capture, now while I still can, the stories that would bring her back to life. This is why I had come all of this way. My entire family had been killed before I was old enough to know them. I have had a good life, filled with a husband who had loved me, two children and now grandchildren. But this piece has always been missing, a hole where my past should be. I want to know the people I had lost.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Woman with the Blue Star

“You need to do better," Pan Rosenberg said before I could speak. He pointed upward. "Up there, almost no more Jews live.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Woman with the Blue Star

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― Pam Jenoff, The Woman with the Blue Star

“Because when people look back on the history of this time, at what happened, they should see that we tried to do something,” he said with determination”
― Pam Jenoff, The Woman with the Blue Star