Top 10 Edith Hahn Beer a Quotes (2024 Update)

Edith Hahn Beer a Quote: “That’s all it takes, you see – a moment of kindness. Someone who is sweet and understanding, who seems to be sent there like an angel on the road to get you through the nightmare.”

1. “That’s all it takes, you see – a moment of kindness. Someone who is sweet and understanding, who seems to be sent there like an angel on the road to get you through the nightmare.”

— Edith Hahn Beer a

Edith Hahn Beer a Quote: “The soul withdrew to a rational silence. The body remained there in the madness.”

2. “The soul withdrew to a rational silence. The body remained there in the madness.”

— Edith Hahn Beer a

Edith Hahn Beer a Quote: “You see, even the inhuman ones were not always inhuman. This was a lesson that I would learn again and again – how completely unpredictable individuals could be when it came to personal morality.”

3. “You see, even the inhuman ones were not always inhuman. This was a lesson that I would learn again and again – how completely unpredictable individuals could be when it came to personal morality.”

— Edith Hahn Beer a

Edith Hahn Beer a Quote: “It was the individuals who made their own rules in this situation. No one forced them to behave in an unkind manner. The opportunity to act decently toward us was always available to them. Only the tiniest number of them ever used it.”

4. “It was the individuals who made their own rules in this situation. No one forced them to behave in an unkind manner. The opportunity to act decently toward us was always available to them. Only the tiniest number of them ever used it.”

— Edith Hahn Beer a

Edith Hahn Beer a Quote: “But then the Nazis arrested Uncle Richard and Aunt Roszi too. They spent six weeks in prison. To get out, they gave the Nazis everything they possessed: real estate, bank accounts, bonds, dishes, silver. Then they left immediately, heading east. Russia swallowed them. My mother waited and prayed for word of them, but none came.”

5. “But then the Nazis arrested Uncle Richard and Aunt Roszi too. They spent six weeks in prison. To get out, they gave the Nazis everything they possessed: real estate, bank accounts, bonds, dishes, silver. Then they left immediately, heading east. Russia swallowed them. My mother waited and prayed for word of them, but none came.”

— Edith Hahn Beer a

Edith Hahn Beer a Quote: “They had been harboring a hatred for us which we had grown accustomed to calling “prejudice.” What a gentle word that was! What a euphemism!”

6. “They had been harboring a hatred for us which we had grown accustomed to calling “prejudice.” What a gentle word that was! What a euphemism!”

— Edith Hahn Beer a

Edith Hahn Beer a Quote: “Mama had a decayed tooth that was killing her. Our Jewish dentist was no longer allowed to practice, but with Pepi’s help, Mama found an Aryan dentist who would pull the tooth. He wanted gold. Mama gave him a gold chain. He wanted more. She gave him another. He wanted more. She gave him her last. Three gold chains for one tooth.”

7. “Mama had a decayed tooth that was killing her. Our Jewish dentist was no longer allowed to practice, but with Pepi’s help, Mama found an Aryan dentist who would pull the tooth. He wanted gold. Mama gave him a gold chain. He wanted more. She gave him another. He wanted more. She gave him her last. Three gold chains for one tooth.”

— Edith Hahn Beer a

Edith Hahn Beer a Quote: “Once, after the Anschluss, I was stopped by a policeman for jaywalking. He ordered me to pay a stiff fine. “But I am Jewish,” I said. That was all he needed to hear to know that I was penniless and could not possibly pay, and he let me go. So you see, when they tell you that they did not realize how the Jews were being despoiled, you must never believe them. They all knew.”

8. “Once, after the Anschluss, I was stopped by a policeman for jaywalking. He ordered me to pay a stiff fine. “But I am Jewish,” I said. That was all he needed to hear to know that I was penniless and could not possibly pay, and he let me go. So you see, when they tell you that they did not realize how the Jews were being despoiled, you must never believe them. They all knew.”

— Edith Hahn Beer a

Edith Hahn Beer a Quote: “Berta, whose boyfriend had walked so far to see her, went out without her star and was immediately arrested and sent to a concentration camp.”

9. “Berta, whose boyfriend had walked so far to see her, went out without her star and was immediately arrested and sent to a concentration camp.”

— Edith Hahn Beer a

Edith Hahn Beer a Quote: “When an idea is idiotic to begin with, its applications never make any sense.”

10. “When an idea is idiotic to begin with, its applications never make any sense.”

— Edith Hahn Beer a

Edith Hahn Beer a Quote: “During that long terrible ride to Munich, I finally swallowed the bitter pill of my lover’s rejection and poisoned myself with it. I murdered the personality I was born with and transformed myself from a butterfly back in into a caterpillar. That night I learned to seek the shadows, to prefer silence.”

11. “During that long terrible ride to Munich, I finally swallowed the bitter pill of my lover’s rejection and poisoned myself with it. I murdered the personality I was born with and transformed myself from a butterfly back in into a caterpillar. That night I learned to seek the shadows, to prefer silence.”

— Edith Hahn Beer a

Edith Hahn Beer a Quote: “I think my father knew how to be Jewish, but he didn’t teach us. He must have thought we would absorb it with our mother’s milk.”

12. “I think my father knew how to be Jewish, but he didn’t teach us. He must have thought we would absorb it with our mother’s milk.”

— Edith Hahn Beer a

Edith Hahn Beer a Quote: “They wanted to know, you see. They were afraid that with our typical Austrian faces, we might be able to pass. They didn’t want to be fooled. Even then, in the 1920s, they wanted to be able to tell who was a Jew.”

13. “They wanted to know, you see. They were afraid that with our typical Austrian faces, we might be able to pass. They didn’t want to be fooled. Even then, in the 1920s, they wanted to be able to tell who was a Jew.”

— Edith Hahn Beer a

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