Michael Berenbaum: Self
Quotes
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Michael Berenbaum : We had information, and we had the information early. We didn't act on that information.
Branko Lustig : We were sitting at the concentration camp at Auschwitz, and an American plane was flying over our head. If the American bombers would put only one bomb on the railway stations before Auschwitz, then 400,000 Jews that came in the last moment from Hungary that were killed, they will not be killed.
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Anne Frank : [from The Diary of Anne Frank] I think that the world may be going through a phase, the way I was with mother. It'll pass. Maybe not for hundreds of years. But some day...
Michael Berenbaum : Toward the end of "Anne Frank", she says what is emblematically American.
Anne Frank : I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are really good at heart.
Michael Berenbaum : The reality is you can't come out of understanding the Holocaust by saying that you believe that people are good at heart. People may be good at heart, but the Holocaust is certainly no manifestation of that.
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Michael Berenbaum : In a world of relativism we don't know what is bad and we don't know what is good. But the one thing we can agree upon is that this is absolute evil.
