" B for Birkenau, 3087 for my prisoner number”
“Remember what the Talmud teaches: Life is but a river. It has no beginning, no middle, no end.
All we are, all we are worth, is what we do while we float upon it — how we treat our fellow man. Remember this, and a good man you will be.”
“my existence in the ghetto — it wasn’t a life, just an existence.”
“I was thirteen years old, and my parents were gone.
I was all alone in the world, but I would survive on my own.”
“I had long since stopped hoping that each new camp would be better. Each was no better or worse than the last. They were all different rooms in purgatory, each different but each the same... "

― Alan Gratz , Prisoner B-3087