“I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal.”

“I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us.”

“Is there a magical time when children become parents to their parents?”

“All of us have parents. Generations pass. We are not unique. Now it is our family's turn.”

“My parents have lived longer than most and have expected very little. We have been blessed in too many ways to count.”

“Life does find a way to create a balance somewhere between smiles and tears. And, like a pendulum's swing, life seldom stays in one place. Life keeps on moving until, one day, it stops.”

“Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.”

“If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.”

“Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a galaxy out of the chaos, can point to the fact that ...”

“Major Trapp was never there. Instead he remained in Jozefow because he allegedly could not bear the sight. We men were upset about that and said we couldn't bear the sight either." Indeed, Trapp's ...”