4 Quotes & Sayings By Rw Schmidt

R.W. Schmidt has gone on to become the most famous living American storyteller of the Holocaust. He is an award-winning author, lecturer, and filmmaker whose work is known around the world. Mr Read more

Schmidt was born in Vienna, Austria on August 5, 1933 to Jewish parents who would later perish in the concentration camps. Raised by his grandparents, he escaped Nazi Vienna at age 17 and spent three years in hiding before immigrating to the United States in 1952 where he eventually became naturalized as an American citizen. He received his B.A.

from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and his M.A. from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York with a major in English literature and a minor in psychology.

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Few living do."" Then, have I...I mean, am I-""Oh, no, child! You are still very much alive! Though I may say, not as Alive as you might be if you had died. R.W. Schmidt
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Something in this meadow and places like it, humble and hidden, offers respite and moments of calm for the wild, adventurous soul that plagues the boys of the world, the wanderer's soul that gnaws and aches inside of them even unto gray manhood. It is the plague of horizons, the plague of the next river bend, the plague that drives men over the vast oceans into strange lands beyond the edges of the maps. R.W. Schmidt
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This is the worst thing about poisons and deadly sins - that we enjoy them. R.W. Schmidt