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Eva Mozes Kor

Early life-

Born in 1934 and was raised in a very religious house. She had two older sisters and a twin sister names Miriam. Their family worked on a farm on Ports and had a warm and loving family. Hungary annexed the part of Romania were they were living and they faced intense anti-Semitic harassment from kids at school and from their neighbors. Kor's classmates spit on her and her siblings ans called them names. Other times students would throw rocks at there house because there were the only Jewish family in the village.

The family was forced to move to Cehei ghetto in Simlew, Silvaniei, Romania in 1944 and they stayed there for little over two months. The ghetto had no housing facilities so they lives in a tent out of sheets and the Nazi commandant would order them to tear down and rebuild and would torture them. The family was forced into cattle cars with the rest if the people who lived in the ghetto and sent to Auschwitz. Eva's father prayed every morning even when they arrived at the camps.

When arriving at the camps Eva and her sister Miriam were recognized as twins and immediately separated from the rest of their family. They never saw their family again because they were taken to the gas chamber along with a lot of others for the ghetto.

Life at the Camp-

Joseph Mengle"The Angel of Death" performed numerous medical experiments on twins. Twins as young as 5-6 were usually murdered after the experiments were over and their bodies were dissected. Mengle would smile as he would inject chemical into the eye if the children in and attempt to change there eye color of the children. He would do experimental surgeries without anesthesia. They transferred blood from one twin to another, He made injections with lethal germs, sex change operations and the removal of organs and limbs.

Approximately three thousand twins passed away during his experiments through out WWII. Only a few twins survived and Eva and Miriam were two of those children who survived.

Eva and Miriam had large amounts of blood drawn from the bodes and they would measure there limbs and take photos of them every day all day. One injection that Eva was given made her very sick and they separated her from Miriam thinking she was going to die. She was put into a place to dies but Eva was a fighter and wanted to get back to here sister. After a few weeks apart she got better and was able to be re united with her sister. During that time Miriam was still experimented on every day. They never knew what the injections where that they were given.

Life after Camp-

In Jan 1945 the Soviet army reached the camps. Eva and Miriam were sent to a convent in Katowice Poland to recover from the camp. A lady named Mrs. Csegeri had been imprisoned in the camp and was a friend of the girls mother. She took care of the girls herself. They were reunited with an aunt and a cousin when they were back in Tomania.

In 1950 Eva and Miriam moved to Israel and they both served in the Israeli Army. Miriam studied drafting and Eva became a nurse. In 1950 Eva married a American tourist Michael Kor. He was also in the concentration camps and he had moved to the United Stated and settled in Indiana.

Side effects as adults from the injections-

Both Eva and Miriam suffered serious health problems for the rest if their lives. Eva suffered miscarriages and tuberculosis and her son that she was able to have after many miscarriages ended up having cancer. Miriam's kidneys never fully developed and she dies in 1993 from a rare form of cancer. When one of Miriam's kidneys failed Eva gave a kidney to her stating that " I have two kidneys and only one sister".

Accomplishments-

Eva is the author of books on her experience and has spoken to over 400 schools. universities, conferences and synagogues. She id the founder of a Holocaust museum and education center in Terre Haute Indiana and the C.A.N.D.L.E.S (Children of Auschwitz Nazis Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors). This organization is dedicated to heal the pain and to teach the truth and to prevent prejudice.

Eva has received over 30 awards from 1985-2017

2017 Sachem Award by Governor Eric Holcomb, 2016 Make a Difference Award, WTHI-TV, 2016 Daughters of WWII, The Bush Institute, 2015 Honorary Eagle, Florida Gulf Coast University, 2015 Mid-America Regional Emmy, Forgiving the Nazis:Life Lessons from the Holocaust, 2015 2nd Place, POLCS: Forum on Law, Culture and Society, 2015 Anne Frank: Change the World Award, 2015 The Mike Vogel Humanitarian Award, 2015 Femme a'l'honneur, Prix du Pardon, 2015 United Way of the Wabash Valley Women of Influence, 2014 Community Global Engagement Award, Indiana State University, 2013 Sagamore of the Wabash by Governor Mike Pence, 2013 Honorary Doctor of Public Service, Christian Theological Seminary, 2012 Distinguished Who's Who, 2012 Ambassador of Goodwill, Arkansas Traveler, 2010 Education Outreach and Service Award, 2008 Forgiveness Hero Award, Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance, 2008 Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, St. May-of-the-Woods College, 2006 Hoosier Heros Award by Indiana Dollars for Scholars, 2005 Sagamore of the Wabash by Governor Joe Kernan, 2004 Americanism Award by the Daughters of the American Revolution, 2004 Gibauly Excellence Award, Education Sector, 2004 Martin Luther King Spirit of Justice Award, 1995 Woman of Valor by the Terre Haute Jewish Community, 1990 Emmy Award (regional) for co-producing the videos, "CANDLES", 1985 Jewish Activism Award by News and Views, a Jewish Radio station in New York, 1985 News Woman of the Year voted by the Israeli Press,

Forgiveness-

Eva has come to the realization as a adult that in order for her to truly heal she must forgive those people who did horrible things to her and her family. She has written letter of forgiveness to the people who harmed them. This took her months to write and the feelings of anger to go away. Most of the people in the community of survivors have shunned her because of this forgiveness. They do not see how she could forgive what was done to all of them. She feels that she has truly healed not that she has forgiveness in her heart and she can go on with a happier life.

Sources: https://candlesholocaustmuseum.org/eva-kor/awards.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Mozes.kor, http://annefrank.dk/Eva.htm, http://www.auschwitz.dk/eva.htm, sf:usc.edu