The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz Quotes

“How much better the world would have been if everyone did the right thing.” “Hopefully, future generations will learn from our mistakes.”
― Ellie Midwood, The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz

“Humans were the biggest hypocrites among all species, for they banned abortions for Aryan women and yet they had no qualms about throwing Jewish children into gas chambers. They talked about helping fellow men and yet turned entire ships full of refugees away from their shores, condemning them to death. They spoke at length of their Christian values, but when it came to offering shelter to the persecuted, they shut their doors and chased the invaders off their property with guns and curses. “Because”
― Ellie Midwood, The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz

“searched his memory to pinpoint the exact day when the world had turned upside down, when the criminals began to be hailed as heroes, when free press had turned into a propaganda machine, when a narcissistic, cruel dictator started to be looked upon with reverence as a savior of the nation”
― Ellie Midwood, The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz

“Thank you for keeping your humanity in a world that prides itself in ruthlessness.”
― Ellie Midwood, The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz

“will go nowhere. It will lie in wait until some fanatic comes and stirs all this baseness and hatred in his followers once again and reminds them of how their ancestors loathed and annihilated everything foreign and how immigrants were always the enemy and how anyone who differs from them in any way deserves to be persecuted and exterminated without mercy. I don’t”
― Ellie Midwood, The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz

“like and dislike people based on their character, not race or religion”
― Ellie Midwood, The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz

“You know what amazes me the most about some people? They value their idiotic ideals over actual human lives. Esty—” her hand, holding a cloth on which she had just generously poured antiseptic, gestured toward her patient, “would have died, and that self-important Hungarian broad, who calls herself a physician, wouldn’t give a brass tack. All she cares about is the idea of the unborn child. The mother, who is a living and breathing human being and whose life is at stake, is irrelevant to her. She would refuse to abort a child that didn’t have the slightest chance in the first place and kill the mother with her inaction as long as her religious principles aren’t compromised. Isn’t that something amazing?” “I’m Jewish.” Mala shrugged. “In my religion, we value a mother’s life over an unborn child’s. Even when it’s a difficult birth and there’s a choice between a mother’s life and the child’s, we always save the mother. She’s already here on earth. She has her life, family, friends, her work and her interests. She’ll go on and have more children. The child hasn’t begun its life yet, so the choice is obvious. That’s the logic behind all this, at least.” “Precisely,” Stasia agreed. “I worked as a gynecologist, back home, in Poland. I was performing abortions—illegally, of course—for all those poor souls who had been turned away from state hospitals. I had thirteen-year-old girls who were raped by their uncles and who sat there with empty eyes and explained to me very calmly that it was the choice between me helping them or them drowning themselves in the river. I had wives who wore veils over their faces to cover up their bruises, begging me to help them so that another poor soul wouldn’t be born into a household where the husband did two things: got drunk, and beat up her and the children on a daily basis. My private clinic was a safe refuge for them. But in the eyes of the self-righteous public, I was this vicious child-murderer with no morals or ethics. And you know what? If helping a woman in crisis is immoral and unethical, I think I’ll remain immoral and unethical rather than condemning her to a life of abuse, poverty, or literal death as in Esty’s case.”
― Ellie Midwood, The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz