Holocaust survivor, author, public speaker, human rights activist and educator Eva Mozes Kor will tell her story at Florida Gulf Coast University Nov. 23. At the age of 10, Kor was sent to the Nazi’s Auschwitz concentration camp where her parents and two older sisters were killed. Eva and her twin sister Miriam became part of a group of about 3,000 children who were abused in horrific genetic experiments under the direction of Dr. Josef Mengele.
They were among the roughly 200 children found alive when the Soviet Army liberated the camp in 1945, most of whom had also been Mengele twins. Nearly four decades later, Eva Kor founded CANDLES (Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors) and with Miriam’s help, reconnected 122 other Mengele twin survivors around the world.
In 1995, Kor founded the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Terre Haute, Indiana. That year she also wrote and published her account of survival in the book, “Echoes from Auschwitz: Dr. Mengele's Twins: The Story of Eva & Miriam Mozes.” Kor has also become known as a forgiveness advocate. Fifty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, she offered her forgiveness to the Nazis as an act of self-healing and to free herself of victim status.
Florida Gulf Coast University’s Office of Community Outreach along with the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies will host a talk by Eva Kor on Nov. 23 at 5:30 p.m. in the Cohen Center Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public. Ahead of the talk, we’ll hear some of Kor’s incredible story of survival in her own words.
Guests:
Eva Mozes Kor, Holocaust Survivor, Mengele Twin, Author, Public Speaker and Founder of CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center
