Frank Lowy

The loss of my father marked my life. I'm 88 years old and I'm still mourning him because it's such a drama for me. It was just after my bar mitzvah and it was so tragic. The effect on me, I carry it all my life. ”

The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain. ”

Life has its ups and downs, but you can only look forward. ”

What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself. ”

All my life from a young man I have worked very hard and I enjoyed it very much and I was really afraid with what I would do when I no longer had the responsibility. ”

To imagine a better life for yourself and your family and to leave behind all that is familiar requires a special kind of courage. ”

So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there. ”

In football, in football clubs, there are many decisions that don't make business sense. Yes, there is always a lot of emotion involved. ”

When I was a lone soldier I didn't have a penny with me. Everybody was eating hummus with tehina and ate falafel, and I couldn't buy it. I was a little hungry, but I managed. ”

I work all the time; whatever I do, I do it, and I don't necessarily look at it as work. You could say the Auschwitz project was work, or the Lowy Institute is work, or Westfield is work, or the football is work. It is life. ”