Mel Mermelstein:          
"You just don't ask people to forget the most barbaric events in man's history You are dealing with gasses, specifically used to annihilate Jews and this did not happen in this some sort of uncivilised part of the world. That happened in the most civilised part where such greats as Bach, Goethe and Beethoven came from. And this is not something that you can look at the other way."

Jeanie Wolf informs the audience about Mel Mermelstein's holocaust-museum.

MM:      "I was convinced that not many Americans will ever go to Auschwitz. So I decided to go to back to Auschwitz and bring with me a little bit of Auschwitz to this country. And this is what you have here."

JW: (to Leonard Nimoy) "Growing up, what notion did you have of the Holocaust?"

LN:  "We saw the new-reels. We saw the photographs of the people being liberated and the mounts and mounts of bodies that they even hadn't a chance to incinerate or burry. I remember it being a very fearful time."

JW asking what made LN do this movie and how he personally identifies with the holocaust.        

LN:  "My reaction was if I had been there, I'd been living there at this time, chances are that I'd been gassed to death. Chances would be very good that I would be hunted down and gassed to death. Being Jewish, being of a Jewish family."
 

       (voice over) In 1980 Mel Mermelstein answered a challenge from a Neo-Nazi group that publicly claimed the holocaust never happened.

 
MM: "That is Jew-baiting. That is all that is.  ….
They're anti-Semite, they're Jew-haters and it's just another way of carrying out anti-Semitism, in other words 'the bigger the lie', they think, 'the easier to sell'."

        (summary of voice over) Struggling to find a lawyer to represent his case he and his family also had to suffer under threats.

Mr. Mermelstein succeeded in getting the Holocaust declared an indisputable historical fact by the court.

 MM: "I am the sole survivor of my entire family. And I had no choice but to pursue it. And I believe that the promise that I made to my father I will tell if and when I survive. I was duty-bound to do that."

        Mr. Mermelstein himself was playing his own father in the scene where his family is taken away to a concentration camp.

MM:  "I was all by myself in the bedroom when I watched it, and I broke down and cried. It really moved me to tears. Let me tell you this, I didn't think had these tears left. This film definitely is a promise fulfilled."