Eva Kor Essay

It was Auschwitz, 1944. Ten-year-old Eva Kor and her twin sister, Miriam, entered the deathly gates where they, among 3,000 other twins, were tormented and experimented on. Josef Mengele, an SS physician, was the man most responsible for these experiments and deaths. He was referred to as 'The Angel of Death' because of his charming and angelic features. These experiments led to only 200 survivors. Among those survivors were Eva and Miriam. Almost 20 years after the war, in 1960, Eva got married to a man named Micheal Kor and moved with him to Terre Haute, Indiana. Together they had two children. Eva's move to America was not easy; it was her first time away from her twin sister and she was not fluent in English. Her neighbors tormented her

This succeeded and the twins started stepping forward and reaching out to her. Finally, they were getting the recognition that Eva was fighting for. Eva gained a lot of popularity through speeches, interviews, and articles. She brought awareness to the Holocaust and Mengele's experiments. As she gained popularity, Eva decided to look for Josef Mengele, only to find he drowned in 1979. She was enraged by this news and refused to believe it. As she continued to search for more survivors, she had the opportunity to meet Hans Münch, a former Nazi. Eva received international attention by publicly forgiving the Nazis for what happened to her. People were appalled and she was called selfish for forgiving them. Eva Kor was not selfish for forgiving them publicly because she did it for herself and not for the other victims. Eva Kor's public forgiveness was not selfish because it was for herself. In the documentary, Eva said, "I went home, closed the door, picked up a dictionary, made a list of twenty nasty words, which I read clear and loud to that make believe Mengele in my room and then I said, 'In spite of all that, I forgive you'"(Eva