“I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.”

—  Abraham Pais

Source: To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000), p. 50

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