FORGIVENESS The Story of Eva Kor
Survivor of the Auschwitz Twin Experiments
The Mozes family, Eva and her identical twin sister Miriam, father, mother, and two elder sisters were taken in a horse cart to a Jewish ghetto, an open field of mud with nothing but bedsheets and rags for shelter, in a neighboring Romanian city to await transport to a“ concentration camp” in neighboring Hungary to work in isolation. But after being forced into cattle cars, the family and all the other innocent souls travelled the train tracks to Poland instead— to Auschwitz / Birkenau the Nazi’ s largest“ death camp.” Within moments, the Mozes twins became the only members of the family to be selected to continue living, as subjects for Dr. Josef Mengele’ s experiments. The rest of the family along with most of the other prisoners on the train were taken to the“ showers”— in reality gas chambers— for immediate extermination. It is estimated that over 1,100,000( 900,000 Jews) were killed in Auschwitz / Birkenau alone.
Eva and Miriam survived by incredible luck, determination, and strength, but surviving and eventually immigrating to the newly formed country of Israel, and in Eva’ s case, Terre Haute, Indiana. A marriage, children, and successful
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