Holocaust Survivor Eva Kor (1934-2019): A Woman of Peace and Forgiveness


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Eva Kor pointing to a picture of herself as a 10-year-old in 1944 when Auschwitz was liberated.
Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images News/Getty Images



by SUSAN M. BRACKNEY


For decades, Eva Mozes Kor carried the weight of Auschwitz with her. At the age of 10, her parents and her two older sisters were murdered there by the Nazis. The fact that she and her identical twin sister survived only added to that weight. But, in the end, it wasn’t what she carried but what she finally chose to lay down that mattered most—to her and to those who will carry on her legacy.



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Check out the videos that students from Batchelor Middle School created with Eva Kor to document the Holocaust here.

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