Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world which might cease to exist.

Concentration camp money... It was a German sadism that invented it. Can you do anything with it? Yes, you can cry.

The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you learn about Goethe, don't forget to study the Holocaust, too.

...can you call a farm with a dozen geese a farm? Still, it was a little better for the Jews in Czechoslovakia. There were only two pogroms there. What's two pogroms?

Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly

The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with the photographer's thinking about the subject he photographs and is continued in the mind of the spectator.

You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.

[his scientific accomplishments] were overshadowed by the photographs he took of Jews in prewar Eastern Europe and in Nazi Berlin. -- Shepard, Richard