A Gypsy In Auschwitz Quotes

“The camp stripped us of any sense of right and wrong. Our minds were destroyed and our nerves so tattered that we stopped seeing anyone else at all.”
― Otto Rosenberg, A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’

“In such a place, you stop feeling altogether. People were past feelings, so to speak; they were numbed.”
― Otto Rosenberg, A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’

“The world is full of terrible people. but there are always a few good eggs among them”
― Otto Rosenberg, A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’

“We weren't humans anymore; we were more like wild animals”
― Otto Rosenberg, A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’

“In a situation like that, you lose all sense of compassion. Your only instinct is to kick, beat and steal in pursuit of some advantages that might help you survive. If, whenever it was all over, you recall looking at those people, recall scrutinising their faces like I did, you would see that they were hardly people anymore; they were more like dumb beasts.”
― Otto Rosenberg, A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’