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Eva Mozes Kor
Sophia Elliott
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Early Life ❖ Eva and her twin sister Miriam were born
January 31, 1934 in the village of Portz, Romania
❖ Her mother was named Jaffa and father was Alexander
❖ The twins had two older sisters, Edit and Aliz ➢ The four of them were raised very religious
❖ The Mozes family were land and farm owners, so they had to live a rustic and homey style of life
❖ They were the only Jewish family in Portz 2
Miriam Eva
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Where Eva grew up was the tiny village of Portz, which is right around here
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Before the War ❖ Eva attended a one-room schoolhouse to receive the first four
years of her education ❖ During this time, when Eva was six, Hungarian Nazis occupied
their village (1940)❖ Because of this invasion, anti-semitism spread throughout her
village ➢ Eva’s neighbors and classmates vandalized her
home and called her terrible names
❖ In 1944, Eva and her family were transported to the Cehei ghetto, a ghetto în Simleu Silvaniei (pictured in red on map)
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Life in the Ghetto ❖ In the ghetto, there was no housing facilities
➢ Eva and her family used sheets to create a makeshift tent, which they were often ordered to tear down and rebuild by the Nazis
❖ For 2 ½ months the Mozes family lived here ❖ In May of 1944, they were loaded into boxcars
and deported to Auschwitz ❖ She stated how she remembers her father saying
prayers as they were being put on the train
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Arrival at Auschwitz ❖ Eva and Miriam were immediately recognized as twins when
they arrived and were separated from the rest of their family ➢ The rest were sadly sent to the gas chambers
◆ The two were taken to the barrack where Dr. Mengele housed his test subjects
◆ Upon seeing the horrific state of the other children there, she promised herself that she
would do everything to try and stay alive ◆ Eva was only 10 years old
6Eva while in Auschwitz
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Life in Auschwitz ❖ Dr. Mengele experimented on the twins by giving them
injections, drawing large amounts of blood from them, and documenting their bodies ➢ This would occur three times a week for six to even eight hours
at a time
❖ For one type of experiment, they would strip naked to be examined and measured closely for hours
❖ Another test involved getting blood drawn from one arm and receiving injections at the same time in the other
❖ Miriam’s kidneys stopped growing as a result of all the testing, remaining the size of a child’s forever 7
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Resistance in the Camp
❖ Because of the testing she had to undergo, Eva once became very sick and was sent to the infirmary, where the doctors and Mengele thought she was going to die➢ Eva was determined to maintain the promise to herself to
survive and to prove Mengele wrong➢ If Eva died, her sister would also have to be killed in order
for Mengele to perform a double autopsy
❖ Eva managed to beat this sickness and reunite with her sister back in the barracks, keeping them both alive
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Freedom from Auschwitz
❖ When the Soviet Army began to approach the camp, the Nazis sent the inmates on death marches to other German controlled lands ➢ Those left in the camps were the elderly, sick, and
children (mostly sets of twins like Eva and Miriam) ❖ On January 27, 1945, those remaining in Auschwitz
were liberated ❖ The twins were sent to a convent in Poland and then to
two other refugee camps where they could recover from the debilitating conditions of the camp
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Recovering from Auschwitz
❖ After nine months of bouncing between refugee camps, Eva and Miriam were able to stay with their Aunt in Romania
■ Eva says she still did not feel free living in Romania even though she was liberated
➢ In 1950, the twins moved to Israel (circled on map) to finally feel free to live as members of the Jewish faith
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Life Moving Forward
❖ Eva attended an agricultural school for 2 years and then served in the Israeli Army for 8 years ➢ She attained the rank of Sergeant
Major ❖ She met another Holocaust survivor,
Michael Kor, and they married each other shortly after in Tel Aviv before moving to the U.S.
❖ The couple moved to Indiana and had two children, Alexander and Rina
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Michael Kor (bottom left) and Eva Mozes Kor (bottom right) with their two children
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Remembering Her Experiences ❖ In 1978, Eva began to wonder what had happened to the
other sets of twins who survived Auschwitz ❖ She contacted Miriam (who was still living in Israel) to help
her find these other survivors ➢ 122 victims of Mengele’s torture were able to reunite
❖ In 1984, Eva and Miriam created CANDLES ➢ Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments
Survivors ➢ This acronym for the organization also stood as a symbol of
shedding light on the dark times of the Holocaust ❖ Eva dedicated herself to raising awareness about Dr.
Mengele’s experiments 12
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“What I discovered for myself was life-changing. I discovered that I had
the power to forgive.”- Eva Mozes Kor
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Forgiveness ❖ In 1995, Eva forgave the Nazis for what they did to her
and her family ➢ She does not excuse them for what they did, but she says
that forgiving them freed her from a burden ❖ Eva believes her message of forgiveness is
misunderstood by other survivors because she is not “forgiving and forgetting” as most would assume
❖ Eva has since created a documentary Forgiving Dr. Mengele and even spoke out against the 2015 prison sentence of Oskar Groning, the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz”
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July 4, 2019, Eva Mozes Kor passed away during an annual trip to Poland
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Works Cited Borschel-Dan, Amanda, et al. “Holocaust Survivor Preaches Forgiveness of Nazis as 'Ultimate Revenge'.” The Times
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