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Whenever I am faced with documents on the Holocaust, on concentration camps, on mass extermination of Jews by Hitler, on racial laws and on endless suffering of the Jewish people during World War II, I feel strangely paralyzed... While knowing that one must not remain silent, I am desperately speechless... It is as if that paralysis suddenly threw me to the very bottom of the perception of human guilt and of my own co-responsibility for human actions and for the condition of the world in which we live and which we build... it is necessary to talk about the suffering of the Jewish people even though it is so difficult to do so.
VACLAV HAVEL
President of Czech Republic
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