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business career didn’ t heal the terrible loss of family, community, and trauma of the Holocaust that killed six and a half million Jews, and over the course of World War II took the lives of 72,000,000 people with an estimated 47,000,000 of those lives being noncombatants. How can anyone heal after such personal tragedy and incredible global catastrophe?
Eva found a way and it inspires the world: Forgiveness.
Forgiveness not as an exoneration of the terrible crimes committed, but as a way to heal the victim’ s own soul. To lay down the burden of anger, guilt, and revenge and move forward into life, the happy life every victim of tragedy deserves.
Eva formed the CANDLES( Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors) organization with her twin, Miriam in 1984 and opened the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Terre Haute in 1995. Several years later she began leading groups to Auschwitz / Birkenau to hear her story and the history of the camp.
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