My friends assured me that Hitler’s talk was sheer bombast,” Vishniac said in 1955. But I replied that he would not hesitate to exterminate those people when he got around to it. And who was there to defend them? I knew I could be of little help, but I decided that, as a Jew, it was my duty to my ancestors, who grew up among the very people who were being threatened, to preserve — in pictures, at least — a world that might soon cease to exist.
It is written that ‘All Jews are responsible for one another,’ and a Jew who lives in Siberia or in Kamchatka is just as good as a Jew who had the good fortune to be born in Jerusalem.
The people do not decide issues, they decide who shall decide.
Shame on accursed tsarism which tortured and persecuted the Jews. Shame on those who foment hatred towards the Jews, who foment hatred towards other nations.
No, you’re not going with him.”
I crossed my arms. Who decided that?”
He put on his I’m alpha and I’m putting my foot down” expression. I decided.
Formerly an anti-Semite was somebody who hated Jews because they were Jews and had a Jewish soul. But nowadays an anti-Semite is somebody who is hated by Jews.
Who are the slumlords in the Black community? The so-called Jews… Who is it sucking our blood in the Black community? A white imposter Arab and a white imposter Jew.
Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
People who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
On the Luneberg Heath, it was near where Bergen-Belsen had been, and everything round there smelled of garlic and it was all Jews, because who was buying anything at that time? Only the Jews, and then I said to myself, I, I who was bargaining with Jews over wood and eggs, I was amazed and astounded, and I thought you see — goddammit! They all should have been killed, and there those fellas are, doing deals with me, you know?