Two acquaintances meeting in the street would warm one another's hands with a shy smile. - Shulamith Hareven

One example of our inability to cope with large numbers is our lack of comprehension of the magnitude of the Holocaust. During the Adolf Eichmann trial in Israel, it was the individual murders that registered in our memories and our senses rather than the descriptions of mass murders. For many of us who attended the trial, Eichmann had to answer for personally whipping to death a fifteen-year-old Jewish boy who stole an apple. Large numbers tend to become abstract, too abstract to identify with. No writer can write about the six million of the Holocaust; we must write about individuals, about families.

The sounds of a small city. As small as a man's palm. (chapter 2 p22)

Statistics are often the last refuge of the antihumanist.