International Holocaust Remembrance Day is Monday, January 27, 2025, marking the anniversary of the Red Army liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. At a time when antisemitism and extremism are both on the rise, remembering the atrocities of the Holocaust and its victims—the genocide of 6 million Jews (1 million of whom died in Auschwitz alone) and 5 million members of other marginalized groups, including disabled persons, homosexuals, Romani people and more. The mass murder of 11 million human beings—people with families, with dreams, with full lives that were cut brutally short—must not be forgotten. There have tragically been horrific incidents of genocide worldwide since the Holocaust. So may these Holocaust Remembrance Day quotes remind us to never, ever forget history—lest we be doomed to repeat it even more.Related: Everything To Know About Holocaust Remembrance Day
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Holocaust Remembrance Day Quotes
1. "For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing." — Simon Wiesenthal2. "For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people. We saw it begin in Germany with Jews, but people from more than twenty other nations were also murdered." — Simon Wiesenthal3. "For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory." — Elie Wiesel, Night4. "To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time." — Elie Wiesel, Night5. "And now, a prayer—or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive." — Elie Wiesel, Night6. "It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory." — Elie Wiesel, Night7. "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation." — Elie Wiesel8. "We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim." — Elie Wiesel9. "Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." — Elie Wiesel10. "Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe." — Elie Wiesel
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12. "Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love." — Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw
14. "The things I saw beggar description." — President Dwight D. Eisenhower
16. "Escape was not our goal since it was so unrealistic. What we wanted was to survive, to live long enough to tell the world what had happened in Buchenwald." — Jack Werber, Saving Children: Diary Of A Buchenwald Survivor And Rescuer
18. "We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone. It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere." — Primo Levi
20. "The Holocaust manifested the veneer of civilization so thin and fragile that repetition was possible." — Sam Kaltman
Sam Kaltman was an #Auschwitz survivor. In 1980, he gave a powerful speech, speaking of how, “the Holocaust manifested the veneer of civilization so thin and fragile that repetition was possible." Sam believed in the power of education to prevent atrocities. #25Stories25Days pic.twitter.com/BihlVAD7Oj
— The Holocaust & Humanity Center (@cincyhhc) January 22, 202022. "Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander." — Yehuda Bauer
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23. "I, for one, am alarmed at the conceit and sureness of the advocates of this new dream. I shudder at their ruthlessness in meddling with life. I resent their egoistic and stern righteousness. I shrink from their judgment of their fellows." — Clarence Darrow, The Eugenics Cult
25. "We demand that people don’t deny the Holocaust, and we can’t ignore the tragedy of another nation." — Reuven Rivlin
27. "When the Holocaust happened, I was 15 years old. My parents kept it a secret from me, despite belonging to the Red Cross. I only found out about it much later. Even today I still feel guilty, because I was an ignoramus between the age of 15 and 25. I am sorry I couldn’t stand up for them." — Jean-Luc Godard
29. "None of the various 'language rules,' carefully contrived to deceive and to camouflage, had a more decisive effect on the mentality of the killers than this first war decree of Hitler, in which the word for 'murder' was replaced by the phrase 'to grant a mercy death.' Eichmann, asked by the police examiner if the directive to avoid 'unnecessary hardships' was not a bit ironic, in view of the fact that the destination of these people was certain death anyhow, did not even understand the question, so firmly was it still anchored in his mind that the unforgivable sin was not to kill people but to cause unnecessary pain." — Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
31. "How can you compromise with people who don't want you to exist? They want us to disappear. I can't adapt to death." — Amy Harmon, From Sand and Ash
33. "When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice." — Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
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35. "The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction." — Tim Holden
37. "Holocaust denial, once the preserve of fringe conspiracy theorists, has mutated into Holocaust obfuscation, equivocation, and specious comparison on a larger scale than ever." — Ephraim Mirvis
39. "There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust." — Fidel Castro
41. "I am very proud to be Jewish, and being Jewish is so much of what I am. Look, my father's family was wiped out by Hitler in the Holocaust. I know about what crazy and radical, and extremist politics mean. I learned that lesson as a tiny, tiny child when my mother would take me shopping and we would see people working in stores who had numbers on their arms because they were in Hitler's concentration camps. I am very proud of being Jewish, and that is an essential part of who I am as a human being." — Sen. Bernie Sanders
43. "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 some people survived even as most people died. And can remind us that the swallows still sing around the smokestacks." — Jane Yolen
44. "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me." — Martin Niemöller
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45. "Six million of our people live on in our hearts. We are their eyes that remember. We are their voice that cries out. The dreadful scenes flow from their dead eyes to our open ones. And those scenes will be remembered exactly as they happened." — Shimon Peres
47. "What I want you to take away from my life story is just how important it is to defend your freedom, at all costs. Experience has shown me that if you lose your freedom, you are condemned to fail." ― Leon Schgrin
49. "People ask all the time what I learned in the camps. But the camps weren't therapy. What do you think these places were? Universities? We didn’t go there to learn. One becomes very clear about these things. What are you asking for? Forgiveness for her? Or do you just want to feel better yourself? My advice, go to the theatre, if you want catharsis, please. Go to literature. Don't go to the camps. Nothing comes out of the camps. Nothing." — Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
51. "I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur: think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia." — Miep Gies
53. "In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit." — Anne Frank
55. "Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart." — Anne Frank
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