The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz Quotes

“… A mother is surely the dearest human to every one of us ...”
― Thomas Geve, The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival – The Unique Holocaust Testimony of a Young Prisoner with 8+ Drawings from Nazi Camps

“A strong body, encouraged by a determined mind, could outlive torture”
― Thomas Geve, The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival – The Unique Holocaust Testimony of a Young Prisoner with 8+ Drawings from Nazi Camps

“... we were not applauding individuals but saluting youth that would never be conquered”
― Thomas Geve, The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival – The Unique Holocaust Testimony of a Young Prisoner with 8+ Drawings from Nazi Camps

“We were teenagers and we were still trying to understand ourselves and each other”
― Thomas Geve, The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival – The Unique Holocaust Testimony of a Young Prisoner with 8+ Drawings from Nazi Camps

“Courage indeed was needed to follow beliefs that had been ruthlessly outlawed for almost a decade now”
― Thomas Geve, The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival – The Unique Holocaust Testimony of a Young Prisoner with 8+ Drawings from Nazi Camps

“This grim chapter of our past was created by people and it is people who can create a brighter future”
― Thomas Geve, The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival – The Unique Holocaust Testimony of a Young Prisoner with 8+ Drawings from Nazi Camps

“Like antiquities, they would soon best relics of a culture that killed itself; a way of living that was a path to death; a system that had failed.”
― Thomas Geve, The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival – The Unique Holocaust Testimony of a Young Prisoner with 8+ Drawings from Nazi Camps

“Few of us still believed in religion but it was comforting to know that, at this moment, people could concentrate on thinking about their fellow men.”
― Thomas Geve, The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival – The Unique Holocaust Testimony of a Young Prisoner with 8+ Drawings from Nazi Camps

“Now it was over, the murderers of yesterday were clamouring to be rescued, to be saved for the sake of all the virtues they themselves had never had the courage to show.”
― Thomas Geve, The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival – The Unique Holocaust Testimony of a Young Prisoner with 8+ Drawings from Nazi Camps

“The clouds were free. Music was ageless. Thoughts were limitless. But we and millions like us were held by chains, chains we did not see and could not break, chains we had not known of, chains forged by a dying civilisation to shackle it's youth.”
― Thomas Geve, The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival – The Unique Holocaust Testimony of a Young Prisoner with 8+ Drawings from Nazi Camps

“Pondering long and hard, we decided that we could not desert each other. Keeping together pooling our strengths and weaknesses, might give us a chance to survive”
― Thomas Geve, The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival – The Unique Holocaust Testimony of a Young Prisoner with 8+ Drawings from Nazi Camps

“When the evening clouds floated westwards as if in a hurry to leave us, they took with them the scraps of music and our thoughts. The clouds were free. Music was ageless. Thoughts were limitless.”
― Thomas Geve, The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival