MURFREESBORO — A
woman who survived a World War II death camp and sadistic genetic experimentation
by the Nazis will tell her story in an MTSU-sponsored event.
Eva Mozes Kor, co-author of “Surviving the Angel of Death”
with Lisa Rojany Buccieri, will speak at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14, in the
auditorium of Central Magnet School, 701 E. Main St. in Murfreesboro. The event
is free and open to the public, but it is recommended for ages 13 and up.
Kor and her identical twin, Miriam, were held captive in the
notorious Auschwitz death camp from 1944 to 1945, when they were liberated by
the Soviet army. They and other twins were subjected to experiments under the
direction of Josef Mengele, the so-called “Angel of Death.”
Mengele’s gruesome treatment of twins in the name of science
included amputating limbs without anesthesia, stitching twins together and
injecting chemicals into their eyes to change their eye color. While Kor and
Miriam survived, their parents and two older sisters died at Auschwitz. Miriam
died in 1993.
In 1984, Kor founded Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab
Experiments Survivors, or CANDLES. Through her efforts, 122 other living
Mengele twins were located. In 1995, she returned to Auschwitz 50 years after
her liberation to sign a “declaration of amnesty” officially forgiving all
Holocaust perpetrators and Nazi sympathizers.
Now 83, the Romanian-born Kor lives in Terre Haute, Indiana.
In 2007, she worked with state legislators on a law to require Holocaust
education in Indiana secondary schools. She lectures nationwide on the power of
forgiveness.
Kor will sign free copies of her book, “Surviving the Angel
of Death,” following the presentation. This event is sponsored by the MTSU
Jewish and Holocaust Studies Program and the Tennessee Holocaust Commission with
additional sponsorship by the MTSU Department of English.
For more information, contact Elyce Helford, professor of
English and director of Jewish and Holocaust Studies, at 615-898-5961 or
elyce.helford@mtsu.edu.
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