The Redhead of Auschwitz Quotes

“Evil does not only happen when a person is abnormally bad. Evil happens when good people do not see the good in other people. Evil happens when we judge each other. Evil happens when we put ourselves higher than others. Evil happens when we stand by someone else’s evil and do not speak up. I”
― Nechama Birnbaum, The Redhead of Auschwitz. A True Story

“We cannot always prevent the bad, but we also cannot let it overshadow the good.”
― Nechama Birnbaum, The Redhead of Auschwitz

“The whole purpose of this world really is for the next world, you know. This world is the corridor, before the palace. We are supposed to prepare ourselves in the corridor, so we can enjoy the palace. It is what our sages taught us. The next world is for eternity; this world is so fleeting.”
― Nechama Birnbaum, The Redhead of Auschwitz. A True Story

“Evil does not only happen when a person is abnormally bad. Evil happens when good people do not see the good in other people. Evil happens when we judge each other. Evil happens when we put ourselves higher than others. Evil happens when we stand by someone else’s evil and do not speak up.”
― Nechama Birnbaum, The Redhead of Auschwitz. A True Story

“We can know that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.’ Tolstoy”
― Nechama Birnbaum, The Redhead of Auschwitz. A True Story

“If you are reading this now, you are alive, and for you, too, the world was created for you alone. All the beauty of the world was created just for you, and for each one of us.”
― Nechama Birnbaum, The Redhead of Auschwitz. A True Story

“From the first moment we come to this earth, we cry, and it is our mothers who soothe us. Even if we don’t realize it, every time we sob, we think of our mothers. It is the most primal part of us that cries to our mothers.”
― Nechama Birnbaum, The Redhead of Auschwitz. A True Story

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― Nechama Birnbaum, The Redhead of Auschwitz. A True Story

“Think of it as the greatest gift of all. You don’t wait to see what kind of life you lived or what kind of person you became, you choose for yourself no matter what you are going through. You don’t wait for life to happen to you, you happen to life. With every move you make you can choose to make it what you want, what you believe in, even if it is the harder choice.”
― Nechama Birnbaum, The Redhead of Auschwitz. A True Story

“I have always felt that finding rhythms and music in life is the best part of living,”
― Nechama Birnbaum, The Redhead of Auschwitz. A True Story

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― Nechama Birnbaum, The Redhead of Auschwitz. A True Story

“All destruction comes from thinking about others as different than you. To be cruel to someone, you cannot think of them as yourself. So, we make them a stranger in our eyes. As if we don’t all have the same blood in our veins, as if we don’t breathe the same air. No one can be cruel unless they really view someone as different but that rips the world apart. We cannot be different. We are all part of the same God. We are never alone.”
― Nechama Birnbaum, The Redhead of Auschwitz. A True Story

“It is their choice to forgive, but they are forever silenced. While they cannot speak, we can speak for them. Instead of speaking of forgiveness, we can speak of remembrance and revenge. The greatest revenge we can inflict is to have tolerance and kindness for all peoples. All those that Hitler so strongly stood against.”
― Nechama Birnbaum, The Redhead of Auschwitz

“We lost a great man today" He says "A man who could not find a bad thing to say about anyone, and who always had a reason as to why someone may have done things in a certain way. He was quite creative I tell you!" A few people laugh but mama sobs even harder "He always had a kind word, a beaming smile, a listening ear.”
― Nechama Birnbaum, The Redhead of Auschwitz

“The souls talk in the language of music,” Zaidy explained. “They talk in beats and strings, in drums and harp.” “Really?” I asked, trying to imagine this beautiful language. “Of course! That’s why babies calm down when you play them music, they are remembering. That’s why music speaks to us in a way that nothing else can.”
― Nechama Birnbaum, The Redhead of Auschwitz. A True Story

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
― Nechama Birnbaum, The Redhead of Auschwitz. A True Story

“It is as if I have been gutted open and every part of my soul heaves out in pain.”
― Nechama Birnbaum, The Redhead of Auschwitz. A True Story

“Everyone cries but I cry from the deepest part inside of me.”
― Nechama Birnbaum, The Redhead of Auschwitz. A True Story

“Zaidy? How can some people be so good, and some people be so bad? Aren’t we all the same people?” “That’s a good question, my little philosopher. That is the power of free choice. You choose what you want to be.” “So, someone who is cruel, chose to be that way?” “Yes of course, maybe not all at once, but with the everyday decisions he made he molded himself into the person he is today.” “It scares me sometimes, though, that I have the right to decide.” “Think of it as the greatest gift of all. You don’t wait to see what kind of life you lived or what kind of person you became, you choose for yourself no matter what you are going through. You don’t wait for life to happen to you, you happen to life. With every move you make you can choose to make it what you want, what you believe in, even if it is the harder choice.”
― Nechama Birnbaum, The Redhead of Auschwitz. A True Story