Eva Mozes Kor, who has died aged 85, was a survivor of Auschwitz and of Josef Mengele’s notorious experiments. She lost 49 of her relatives in the Holocaust, including both her parents and two of her sisters, yet in later life she insisted that she forgave its perpetrators. In 1995, she wrote a letter of forgiveness to a Nazi doctor named Hans Munch, after he agreed to testify about the workings of the gas chambers at Auschwitz; and in 2015, she was photographed embracing in court the so-called Bookkeeper of Auschwitz, Oskar Groening, after he accepted moral guilt for his part in the Holocaust. Other survivors were angry, but Mozes Kor said that she had come to realise that “forgiveness is the best revenge”.
Eva Mozes and her identical twin Miriam…
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