- Henryk Schoenker: I walked until I saw a poster in German and Polish that read: "Wieliczka will be free of Jews. If you hide a Jew, if you help a Jew - the penalty is death."
- Henryk Schoenker: Todestrafe. For anything at all - Toderstrafe.
- Henryk Schoenker: I kissed his hand. I remember exactly that I kissed his hand.
- Henryk Schoenker: I have to say, to this day, I believe he wasn't a man.
- Henryk Schoenker: It was an angel! It was a miracle, a miracle that happened, a real miracle!
- Henryk Schoenker: People who worked outside the ghetto returned from the workshops.
- Henryk Schoenker: This is where the nightmare took place!
- Henryk Schoenker: Scenes of tears straight from Dante!
- Henryk Schoenker: People screamed to the heavens, "My mother! My children! Where are my children?"
- Henryk Schoenker: It took place at night. There were barracks, rows and rows of barracks and lamp poles with flood lights.
- Henryk Schoenker: They began sending the first transports out of the camp.
- Henryk Schoenker: We were sure they were going to be allowed emigrate.
- Henryk Schoenker: Everyone envied them.
- Henryk Schoenker: It turned out the emigration was halted. No country would accept Jews. Instead, the transports were sent directly to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- Senior officer at Bergen-Belsen: What are you talking about?
- Senior officer at Bergen-Belsen: Nobody in the world is interested in you.
- Senior officer at Bergen-Belsen: No one has the slightest interest.
- Henryk Schoenker: My hometown did not have to become a symbol of the extermination of the Jews. It could have become a symbol of rescue.
- Henryk Schoenker: The Jews of Auschwitz had a good chance to emigrate.
- Henryk Schoenker: It failed. No one wanted to take them. They were alone.
- Henryk Schoenker: It was a great irony. Where there was supposed to be a collection point of Jews to emigrate: that site became a collection point for their destruction.
- Henryk Schoenker: The whole world was watching. Don't let anybody say today they didn't know. That they didn't hear. That it wasn't known.
- Henryk Schoenker: Everyone knew. Everyone heard and no one did anything to help us.
- Henryk Schoenker: Every Polish Jew who survived the war wouldn't have been saved if, somewhere, somehow, some Pole didn't help him.
- Henryk Schoenker: We are forever grateful to those ordinary people who saved us. Those people are the light of humanity.
- Henryk Schoenker: They were the silent heroes of this war.