“ If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven - from their sadness to their hope. ”

“ I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. ”

“ It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. ”

“ I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it. ”

“ My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed. ”

“ Peace is our gift to each other. ”

“ Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. ”

“ Some stories are true that never happened. ”

“ Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. ”

“ There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. ”