...But this number, like all the others,.... : Quote by Timothy Snyder

“ ...But this number, like all the others, must be seen not as 5.7 million, which is an abstraction few of us can grasp, but as 5.7 million times one. This does not mean some generic image of a Jew passing through some abstract notion of death 5.7 million times. It means countless individuals who nevertheless have to be counted, in the middle of life... ”

Timothy Snyder
  • From : Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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