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Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.

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We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man’s presumption made of man in Auschwitz
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We have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone.
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We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses.
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