Miriam Mozes
| Eva Mozes Kor | |
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Eva Mozes Kor
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| Born |
Eva Mozes January 31, 1934 Porț, Romania |
| Residence | Terre Haute, Indiana |
| Nationality |
 Romania
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| Other names | Eva Kor |
| Citizenship |
 United States
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| Known for | Founded CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center |
| Spouse(s) | Michael Kor |
| Children | Alex Kor, Rina Kor |
Eva Mozes Kor (born January 31, 1934) is a survivor of the Holocaust who, with her twin sister Miriam, was subjected to human experimentation under Josef Mengele at Auschwitz. Both of her parents and two older sisters were killed at the camp; only she and Miriam survived. In 1984, Kor founded the organization CANDLES (an acronym for "Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors"), through which she located 122 other living Mengele twins, as the experiment survivors came to be known.
Kor founded CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center in 1995 to educate the public about eugenics, the Holocaust, and the power of forgiveness. Kor received international attention when she publicly forgave the Nazis for what had been done to her. This story was later explored in the documentary Forgiving Dr. Mengele.
Eva Mozes was born in 1934 in Porţ, Romania, where her parents, Alexander and Jaffa, landowners and farmers, were the only Jewish residents. They had four girls: Edit, Aliz, and the twins Eva and Miriam.
In 1940, when Eva and Miriam were six, a Hungarian Nazi armed guard occupied their village. In 1944, the family was transported to the regional ghetto in Şimleu Silvaniei. A few weeks later, they were transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
Since Eva and Miriam were twins, the girls were selected as part of a group of children used in experiments under the direction of Josef Mengele. Approximately 1500 sets of twins were subjected to these experiments, and most died from them. Eva herself became very ill, but she lived and helped Miriam survive.
The Soviet Army liberated the camp on January 27, 1945. Found alive were approximately 180 children, most of whom were twins. They were first sent to a convent in Katowice, Poland, which was being used as an orphanage. By searching a nearby displaced person's camp, they located Rosalita Csengeri, a friend of their mother who also had twin daughters used by Mengele. Csengeri took responsibility for Eva and Miriam, helping them return to Romania after liberation.
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