"Not to expend one unit of emotional energy – a few straight words to say it had been entered on the books, and then redoubled action on the fronts." -- Christian Century


"What is happening is this: Millions of human beings, most of them Jews, are being gathered up with ruthless efficiency and murdered. . . The phrase ‘concentration camps' is obsolete, as out of date as ‘economic sanctions' or ‘nonrecognition.' It is possible now to speak only of extermination camps." Edward R. Murrow, December 13, 1942


"world's helplessness to stop the horror while the war is going on" and believed that Jews' lives would only be accounted for "at the time of reckoning." New York Times