"As a survivor I feel obliged to remember"

"Being survivors makes us more sensitive towards other people’s suffering."
Lilian Wellisch (USA)

"As a survivor I feel obliged to remember, but on the other hand we have to forget, have to move on. It is, however, very difficult to forget that the Germans wanted to wipe out myself and my people."
Eric Wellisch (USA)

"In the past I could not remember the Synagogue at all, just as I was not able to or did not want to look back on St. Pölten. But when I came back for the first time, that was in 1970, when I returned to the centre of the city where we had lived, on Linzerstraße 13, everything came back. I could at once remember everything in detail, who had lived here or there, the names, where the laundry had been pegged out."
Abraham Harry Reiss (Israel)

"There are so few of us."
Rosa Medak, née Frank (Vienna)

"It is so difficult for me to go to St. Pölten, the memories have not been deleted."
Abraham Harry Reiss (Israel)

"It is always good to hear from the old home country, especially from St. Pölten."
Elfriede Hamilton Schulhof (New Zealand)

"Only 50 years have passed and I am still bitter."
Jenny Gross, geb. Körner (Great Britain)

"The wall which I have built around myself over the last 60 years has partly fallen."
Edith Goldschmidt, née Löw (Switzerland)

"I often walk along the streets, the schools, the public swimming pool, the temple, the excursions that we went on, the café which we visited every Sunday and many more things. One never forgets the home country. One more thing: Austrian food is the best!"
Alfred Berger (USA)

"I am very happy that St. Pölten’s Jews are still remembered. However, this is a bit late? 60 years!"
Erna Ornstein, née Lipschitz (USA)