Treblinka Survivor Quotes

We are at once put to work sorting. My friend Leybl stands next to me. We inspect every garment as carefully as possible. On the other side of me stands a worker who has already been here for several days. I want to find out from him what happened here, since, despite the fact that I can see the clothes left behind by the victims, I still cannot grasp what is going on. ~ Chil Rajchman

All were expecting to die, and every day of their life was a day of suffering and torment. All had witnessed terrible crimes, and the Germans would have spared none of them; the gas chambers awaited them. Most, in fact, were sent to the gas chambers after only a few days of work, and were replaced by people from new contingents. Only a few dozen people lived for weeks and months, rather than for days and hours; these were skilled workers, carpenters and stonemasons, and the bakers, tailors and barbers who ministered to the Germans' everyday needs. These people created an Organizing Committee for an uprising. It was of course, only the already-condemned, only people possessed by an all-consuming hatred and a fierce thirst for revenge, who could have conceived such an insane plan. They did not want to escape until they had destroyed Treblinka. And they destroyed it. ~ Chil Rajchman

I feel so fortunate and grateful to be a survivor of breast cancer. I see it as a gift. ~ Olivia Newton-John

I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it. ~ Rue McClanahan

My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30. ~ Kate Walsh

Consider also the special word they used: survivor. Something new. As long as they didn't have to say human being. It used to be refugee, but by now there was no such creature, no more refugees, only survivors. A name like a number
counted apart from the ordinary swarm. Blue digits on the arm, what difference? They don't call you a woman anyhow. Survivor. Even when your bones get melted into the grains of the earth, still they'll forget human being. Survivor and survivor and survivor; always and always. Who made up these words, parasites on the throat of suffering! ~ Cynthia Ozick

What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free. ~ Judith Lewis Herman

She's a survivor, that one. ~ Suzanne Collins

I don't want to be the only survivor on the island with no smoke. ~ Sean Price

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me. ~ Courtney Love

It is the burden of the survivor to wake one day and discover in yourself a stranger. ~ John Larison

I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer. ~ Mary Ann Mobley

You are more than a survivor. You have been transformed. ~ Eleanor Brownn

After all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood? ~ Nicole Krauss

I am a real survivor because I survived, even if some days it feels like I didn't survive at all. ~ Roxane Gay

Everybody who is alive is a survivor, and everybody who is dead isn't," I said."So everybody alive must have the Survivor's Syndrome. It's that or death. I am so damn sick of people telling me proudly that they are survivors! ~ Kurt Vonnegut

First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor. ~ Patti Smith

[...] survivors like that, well, they understood better than anyone how to get back on their feet. ~ Rachel Barenbaum

I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner. ~ Jean-Claude Izzo

I'm a survivalist and a survivor. ~ Creed Bratton

The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory. ~ Alexander Suvorov

Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first 'Survivor' it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories and want to see more and more. Every new 'Survivor' is going to show you more. ~ Montel Williams

Survivor' meant nothing but breath in your lungs. I didn't become a survivor. I became a badass bitch. That was the choice I made. ~ Jessica Gadziala

A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I urge you to read Eternal Treblinka and think deeply about its important message. ~ Jane Goodall

I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me. ~ Madonna Ciccone

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work. ~ Robert Jay Lifton

It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story. ~ Tom Spanbauer

I think a Celebrity Survivor would be great. ~ Kathy Griffin

You run away a lot," said one of the voices. "That is good. You are a survivor." "Survivor? I've nearly been killed dozens of times!" "Exactly. ~ Terry Pratchett

I'm a survivor. But I'm also victim, too. Surviving has the connotation that you've been through it, you lived through it and that's wonderful - but a victim is what I was. "Survivor" is the more healing way to look at it. ~ Margaret Cho

I do like reality TV. I've always liked 'Survivor' since season 1. ~ Heather Doerksen

Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They'll have a known holocaust denier debating a holocaust survivor. ~ Craig Rosebraugh

I am sacred survivor. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Survivor is like rock 'n' roll - you can do what you want. ~ Jeff Probst

It(Boston Bombings) was worth it to hear you(survivor speakers) speak. ~ Joe Biden

I don't know if anything can really prepare you for 'Survivor,' but since I grew up as an athlete, the physical aspect came to me more easily. ~ Ethan Zohn

You pulled through it, you are not just a survivor, but a Victor. ~ Patricia Dsouza

I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way. ~ Kathy Bates

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about. ~ Alice Walker

I'm a survivor. And I say this with so much pride I could burst into a million tiny pieces at your feet. ~ Trish Kaye Lleone

I'm not playing 'Survivor' when someone I love has cancer. ~ Jenna Morasca

What 'Survivor' is really about is the inescapability of your being yourself, even when you have told yourself you can be someone different for 30 days. ~ Andrea Seigel

I value and honor the way that my suffering brings me to further search and surrender. ~ Maureen Brady

Through my willpower and strength, I can make a difference to the world because I am a Survivor. ~ Patricia Dsouza

As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor. ~ Casey Kasem

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules. ~ Jeff Probst

I am free because I fought for freedom, I am a Survivor. ~ Patricia Dsouza

Survivor Series is something that was very surreal to me to be a part of, but now, I just want to do it again. ~ CM Punk

It's very hard to understand when you're not out there but voting somebody off on Survivor almost feels like you're killing them. ~ Aras Baskauskas

I have a lot of survivor insticts, and I know when to quit. I know when to go forward it my life, but not everybody does. ~ Meredith Brooks

How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war? ~ Jodi Picoult

Outwit, outlast, outplay. It's the tagline for the television show Survivor and it's damn near what presidenting is like, too. ~ George W. Bush

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own. ~ Thomas Mann

I'm a survivor, and I can handle anything. I'm very confident about that. ~ Aaliyah

I realize more and more I miss my 'Survivor' friends when I'm not around them. ~ Jenna Morasca

So many times, it happens too fast
You trade your passion for glory
Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past
You must fight just to keep them alive ~ Survivor

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics. ~ George Stigler

I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her. ~ Helen Gurley Brown

I don't feel like a survivor. I feel left behind. ~ Helen Bevington

I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a survivor, ~ Riccardo Tisci

It's a singular sort of pain, watching the most beautiful creature self-destruct because you weren't able to find the red wire. ~ Joyce Rachelle

Shooting in Los Angeles is always pleasant and comfortable. Shooting in New York is like being on 'Survivor.' ~ Bruce Eric Kaplan

Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life ~ Lynette Gould

Most people I run into say, I haven't missed an episode. Either you like Survivor or you don't, but if you do, you're a loyal viewer. ~ Jeff Probst

My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty .. ~ Franz Stangl

My personal impression is that - Forgiveness is essential for recovery, it loses the power the abuser has over the survivor and allows them to heal. ~ Patricia Dsouza

As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been. ~ Shelley Hamlin

The 'Survivor' community is very tight. I mean very tight. ~ Jenna Morasca

Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors. ~ David Wilkerson

I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on. ~ Ric Flair

I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived. ~ Gennifer Flowers

It would be a mind-boggling endeavor to try to identify each individual who claims to have been a survivor of victimization during this period of 24 years. ~ Jose Ramos-Horta

Healing isn't just about pain. It's about learning to love yourself. As you move from feeling like a victim to being a proud survivor, you will have glimmers of hope, pride and satisfaction. Those are natural by-products of healing. ~ Ellen Bass

I'm a leukemia survivor, and I recall during my darkest days in the hospital when my friends would come to see me, especially the male friends - they had certain mortality issues with their visit. ~ Lew Temple

You are a survivor, at times you may not yet experience it, but the fact is that the worst and the cruelest part of your life is over. ~ Patricia Dsouza

Ted was glad she didn't use the phrase survivor's guilt. He'd heard that so often it made him sick. Yes, he was alive, yes he felt guilt, but he was anything but a survivor. ~ Michael Knost

Punishment symptoms Many of the other types of programming produce psychiatric symptoms, usually administered as punishments by insiders who are trained to administer them, if the survivor has breached security or disobeyed the abusers' instructions in other ways. These symptoms serve a variety of purposes, such as disrupting therapy, getting the survivor into hospital, or getting the survivor to return to the perpetrators to have the programming reinforced.
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A victim has the potential to transform into a survivor, but if that is forgotten, a true victim is what they become. A survivor must endure strife and persevere against those thoughts that would convince them otherwise. Holding fast to ones will will allow them to know their strength has not evaporated; They will never be without hope. ~ J.D. Stroube

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore. ~ Carrie Fisher

You're a survivor because every day you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has the right to take away your happiness ~ Assunta Harris

My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another. ~ Max Bemis

The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor. ~ Claire Cameron

You might think the Bangkok Hilton (the nickname of a fictional prison in Bangkok) was tough, well that was paradise compared to this place! ~ Stephen Richards

Loneliness can either kill you or teach you depending on you being either a fighter or a survivor ~ Vignesh S

I dived out of the office and I was gone ... hitting these fields like a mad March hare. This wasn't Born Free, it was RUN FREE! ~ Stephen Richards

As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out. ~ Etgar Keret

Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I am a survivor NOT a victim. ~ Patricia Buckley

Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series. ~ Mark Burnett

Look at the Germans, the most cultured and well mannered of people, and yet ... Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Given the same set of circumstances it could just as well have been the English, ~ Kate Atkinson

Do not be ashamed of your past. Learn from those experiences and move forward in your life. Teach others of the possibilities of change & living victoriously. You are a survivor. ~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism. ~ Martin Filler

When people ask me about what made the biggest difference in my healing, I tell them that I was believed and tremendously loved. I never felt blamed or shamed into silence. ~ Aishah Shahidah Simmons

In life, you can either be a victim or you can be a survivor. It's a mindset. ~ Clyde Lee Dennis

Just as much as the media portray child sexual exploitation as being a 'hidden' crime, then that is no less of a case with child physical abuse. ~ Stephen Richards

I was becoming a product of society, a hardened juvenile! Now I was becoming rebellious and hateful. ~ Stephen Richards

I didn't like the 'Survivor' shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create. ~ Sharon Lawrence

We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor. ~ Gloria Steinem