- Michael Berenbaum: Survivors tell us their story not because they want to weaken us, not because they want pity, but because they want to strengthen us in our commitment to human dignity and human decency, and our commitment to the sanctity and sacredness of all human life. After they finish bequeathing to us their testimony, then the question is, what are we to do with it? Now it's up to us.
- Benjamin Ferencz: r. You must recognize the importance of compromise, the importance of being able to see the other fellow's point of view. The requirement of your humanity in everything that you do.
- Cantor Moshe Taube: They couldn't imagine that a nation that produced Beethoven, Brahms, Goethe, would stoop so low and stoop so tragically into an abyss of murder.
- Anita Lasker-Wallfisch: The idea that Hitler could destroy music is ridiculous. He destroyed a great deal, but music is not destructible by Hitler.
- Raul Hilberg: No Jew was left alive for lack of transport. Somehow or other, these people managed to find time, special time, or to find cars wherever they could get them, to get the job done. And no one in this system failed in that task.