Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
Ruth Klüger
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The old idea, or rather the old prejudice, that women are protected by men was so deeply ingrained in that society that they overlooked what was the most obvious, that is, that the weakest and the disadvantaged are the most exposed.”
“The death camps seem easier to comprehend if we put them all into the basket of one vast generalization, which the term "death camps" implies, but in the process we mythologize or trivialize them.”
“The the Shoah involved millions of people, it was a unique experience for each of them.”
“I fell on my feet and found my bearings because of these. I could talk to them. They listened and answered, for or against, but always weighing what they had heard, unlike my mother, who used language for manipulation, not to express an opinion or state a fact. What sounded like a fact might be a lie, and every opinion was tailored for the moment.”
“I could be proud to have survived what some have called the asshole of creation, proud that it held me and couldn't keep me. But it is dangerous nonsense to believe that anyone contributed much to her own survival.”
“the more we have to put up with, the less tolerant we get”
“fear feels like sand on your tongue”
“The Shoah involved millions of people, it was a unique experience for each of them.”
“It had been an occasion for reminiscing, but there are limits. And so my childhood falls into a black hole.”
“In class I was out of place because I could so easily be distracted from concepts by metaphors and facts. Clearly, I was less intelligent than I had hoped, and I felt frustrated by an inarticulate notion that something was wrong if old material was processed as if the immediate past and the uncertain future had no bearing on it.”
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Book Keywords:
holocaust, trauma, friendship, tolerance, willingness, childhood, relationships, oppression, history, survivorship, afraid, fear, memories, fed-up, childhood-trauma
