“This creature softened my heart of stone. She died, and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.” — Joseph Stalin.

 

“If there is a god, he must ask me forgiveness.” — Unknown.

Everything about this shakes a person, especially once you realize the circumstances under which it was written. It was discovered in a Jewish concentration camp, written on one of the prison cell walls, which mostly held Jewish prisoners in the worst human conditions during World War II.

When you think about the horrors that happened during the holocaust, you’d never truly get it unless you were there. Still, you would understand the power behind this quote.