"I
don't want to live in a world where a potato is more valuable than an
Oscar. And I don't want children to be in a world where an Oscar is so
important that you forget that there are people who do not have a potato."
- Gerda Weissmann Klein
Remarks by Gerda Weissmann Klein, accepting the Oscar for the documentary One Survivor Remembers, at the Sixty-eighth Annual Academy Awards in 1996