Holocaust Survivor Who Preached Forgiveness, Despite Being Tortured Alongside Her Twin By The Nazis

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Source: USA Today

INDIANAPOLIS -- A Holocaust survivor and beloved Indiana woman Eva Mozes Kor died Thursday just miles from the Auschwitz concentration camp, seventy-five years after first arriving there as a victim of torture under the Nazi regime.

Kor died at 7:10 a.m., local time, in Krakow, Poland. She was in the middle of leading an educational summer trip with the CANDLEs Holocaust Museum and Education Center. By guiding participants through the concentration camp haunted with her most difficult memories, Kor was doing what she did best: educating others by telling them her story.

"Eva Kor has touched hundreds of thousands of people over her 85 years through her message of overcoming tragedy, finding forgiveness, and healing," the Terre Haute, Indiana-based CANDLEs museum said in a statement. "We hope Eva's story continues to change the lives of those who hear it for many years to come."

Known for her strength and advocacy after suffering in Auschwitz during World War II, Kor preached forgiveness, even to the Nazis who tortured her. "I discovered I had one power," Kor said in 2017. "What I tell everybody is that you -- any victim, any person hurt -- you have the same power. You have the power to forgive. And what it does, forgiveness, has nothing to do with the perpetrator. It has everything to do with the way the victim feels."' -MORE...


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At age 10 Eva Kor and her family were taken from Romania to Auschwitz concentration camp. Eva's mother, father and 2 older sisters were killed by gassing there, but she and her twin sister Miriam were chosen to become subjects for medical experimentation. The infamous Nazi "Angel of Death," Dr. Josef Mengele tortured the 2 girls for months, injecting them with mixtures of germs. Years later Eva Kor found a way to forgive him, and spent decades more telling her story.



Twins Eva and Miriam Mozes.

Tribute to Eva Mozes Kor, July 4, 2019. RIP dear Eva.

[delisen]

1. A beautiful person.

[appalachiablue]

2. And a glowing inspiration to the world.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Amazingly identical twins too

indistinguishable from one another

[BigDemVoter]

4. I met her once at my parents' temple.

She came and spoke about her experiences during the war. She made a lot of people angry, because she decided she would forgive the Nazis for what they had done-- I believe they (Mengele primarily) caused the death of her sister from some sort of injection but death occurred after the war, I think? In any case, a lot of people felt that it wasn't her place to 'forgive' the Nazis. . . .

My take is that she had every right to forgive them, but she certainly couldn't forgive them for Jews in the collective sense.

Death is inevitable, but she was a tough, interesting, and ultimately funny individual, and I am truly sorry to read this.

[appalachiablue]

5. Interesting, I understand about Eva not speaking for other Jews,

thanks for posting. Perhaps the justified hate she held had nowhere else to go, I certainly can't know for sure.

[LisaL]

11. Mengele never paid for what he did.

He managed to escape Germany and evade capture.
I certainly couldn't (and wouldn't want to) forgive under such circumstances.

[Coventina]

6. I saw her speak a few years ago.

I'm glad I did.

RIP

[iluvtennis]

7. May Eva RIP.

[joanbarnes]

8. Forgiveness is My Biggest Struggle.....not making any headway in these current times.

[LisaL]

12. I am more of a believer into an "eye for an eye."

[WhiteTara]

14. I think the meaning of "Vengence

is mine" is a reference to karma. That eye and that tooth will be extracted by the causes and conditions that create the karma.

[LisaL]

15. Dr. Mengele was never brought to justice. So it's kind of hard to believe that one can expect that

karma will take care of whatever needs to be taken care of.

[WhiteTara]

16. Well, if you believe the wheels of justice

grind slow and fine, then it takes more than one lifetime reap the results of one's actions.

[trusty elf]

9. Rest in Peace

[Historic NY]

10. I saw a program she was on it was quite powerful....

turning hate to forgiveness, people couldn't understand. As she said its the one thing that I can control.

[LisaL]

13. But what does it even mean to "forgive?"

For instance, Dr. Mengele who tortured her and he sister, and numerous other people, escaped punishment, and never paid for what he did. I am not sure what forgiveness means in such a circumstance. Would she have wanted Dr. Mengele pay for what he did? Because he didn't pay for his evil deeds.

[murray hill farm]

17. Forgiveness.

Forgiveness was Eva's choice to not spend her life being a victim. In that choice, she took control of the rest of her life. she could not change what had happened to her, but she could make the choice not allow it to control the rest of her life...and to move on. If she had chosen to dedicated her life to having him pay for his actions, she would have then dedicated her life to him as a victim.