50 | JUNE 23 • 2022 

“She told me she wanted 
her story to be accessible to 
elementary school students 
but not to sugarcoat the facts,
” 
Davidson said. “Seeing how 
little facts adults have about the 
Holocaust, it is evident we are 
not doing enough for Holocaust 
education, and it must begin at 
a younger age than high school. 
 
“This book addresses that 
challenge because it’s accessible 
for upper elementary school 
and middle school, and it is 
something children and adults 
can read together.
”
The 240-page book chron-
icles Kor’s life: her birth in 
1934 in the village of Portz, 
Romania, the siege of the 
town under Nazi occupation 
and her eventual deportation 
to Auschwitz at age 10. Like 
thousands of other twins who 
arrived at Auschwitz, she and 
her twin sister, Miriam, were 
subject to inhumane experi-
ments by the infamous Josef 
Mengele. 
Of the 3,000 twins who 
Mengele experimented on, only 
160 children survived and were 
liberated when the camp was 
liberated in 1945.
Kor survived with Miriam. 
After the Soviets liberated the 
camp, they eventually made it 
back to Portz to their empty 
home to learn their parents, 
two other sisters and extended 
family did not survive. 
The book continues Kor’s 
life journey from being a refu-
gee, to settling in Indiana, and 
to learning how to overcome 
her childhood trauma and 
unshackling herself from vic-
timhood status by practicing 
the act of forgiveness. 
In 1995, Eva Mozes Kor 
opened the CANDLES 
Holocaust Museum and 
Education Center in Terre 

Haute, Ind., with a mission to 
prevent prejudice and hatred 
through education about the 
Holocaust. In 2007, Kor worked 
with Indiana state legisla-
tors to pass a law mandating 
Holocaust education at the high 
school level. 
Many times, she traveled 
with groups back to Auschwitz 
to bear witness. She died on 
one of those last trips in the 
summer of 2019. 
Davidson said the book, a 
legacy to Kor’s life, is meant to 
teach children in upper elemen-
tary school grades the lessons 
of tolerance and the conse-
quences of what happens when 
hatred goes unchecked. 
Davidson said Kor was 
known to use forgiveness — 
even, controversially, to the 
Nazis who tormented her and 
her sister and murdered her 
family — as a way to heal and 
move forward with a life where 
she refused to forever be looked 
upon as a victim. 
Offering her forgiveness 
healed Eva, but it did not mean 
she would forget what hap-
pened. 
“In the later chapters of the 
book, we discussed Eva’s for-
giveness process,
” Davidson 
said. “Forgiveness meant letting 
go of hatred. It did not mean 
Eva believed the Nazis should 
not have been punished or 
should have been excused for 
what they did. 
“For her, if she still found 
herself hating the Nazis long 
after they physically hurt her, 
all it did was cause her further 
pain. Only after the trauma was 
over could she bring herself to 
forgiveness. 
“For Eva, forgiveness meant 
finding the self-confidence in 
oneself that no one could ever 
bring her down again.
” 

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