For me was the Holocaust not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy. After the war, when I saw that the Jews were talking only about the tragedy of six million Jews, I sent letters to Jewish organizations asking them to talk also about the millions of others who were persecuted with us together - many of them only because they helped Jews.
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I was over four years in different camps with people from 15 nations Jews, Gentiles, Gypsies, communists. Through this experience, my view on the Holocaust and the whole problem of Nazism is a lot different from Elie Wiesel, who was only six months in camps and only with Jews.
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deeply hurt because Kreisky and I are leaves of the same tree.
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Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.
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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.
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