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Eva Mozes Kor 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.〔Forgiving Dr. Mengele (2006).〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.candlesholocaustmuseum.org/index.php?sid=22 )〕 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''. ==Early life== Eva Mozes was born in 1934 in the tiny village of Porţ, Romania. Through the first four years of Eva's education, she and Miriam attended a one-room schoolhouse. Eva's father, Alexander, and mother, Jaffa, had four girls: Edit, Aliz, and the twins Eva and Miriam. Though the Mozes family enjoyed a comfortable living as landowners and farmers, the family lived under the spectre of the Nazi takeover of Germany and the everyday experience of prejudice against the Jews.〔http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/wiesel/holocaust_in_northern_transylvania.pdf〕 When Eva and Miriam were six, a Hungarian Nazi armed guard occupied their village, where the Mozes family was the only Jewish residents. In 1944, after four years' occupation, the family was transported to the regional ghetto in Şimleu Silvaniei. Just a few weeks later, they were packed into a cattle car and transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. After 70 hours without food or water, Eva and her family emerged onto the selection platform at Auschwitz. Eva soon realized her father and two older sisters were gone. Her mother held tight to Eva and Miriam's hands, hoping she could protect them. When approached by a Nazi guard who asked if Eva and Miriam were twins, Eva's mother asked "Is that a good thing?" The guard replied that it was, indeed, a good thing. When Jaffa confirmed that Eva and Miriam were twins, the girls were immediately ripped from their mother. Eva remembers seeing her mother's arms, outstretched in despair. Eva and Miriam soon became and unwilling part of a group of children used as human guinea pigs in genetic experiments under the direction of Dr. Josef Mengele.〔Josef Mengele〕 Approximately 1500 sets of twins—3000 children—were subjected to these practices, and most died from them. Eva herself became deathly ill, but she lived, and she helped Miriam to survive. When they were in Block 1 at Auschwitz I, Eva recalls hearing a woman call out, "We are Free! We are Free!" It was then that Eva realized the Soviet Army liberated the camp. It was January 27, 1945. Found alive were approximately 180 children, the majority of whom were Mengele twins, including Eva and Miriam Mozes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Liberation of Auschwitz )〕 As orphans, Eva and Miriam were first sent to a Katowice, Poland, convent which was being used as an orphanage. Each day they would leave the orphanage, and explore a nearby displaced persons camp, hoping to locate Mrs. Rosalita Csengeri. Mrs. Csengeri was a friend of their mother who also had twin daughters used by Mengele. Mrs. Csengeri took responsibility for Eva and Miriam, taking care of them as they were sent to three different refugee camps over the next nine months before returning to live with their aunt in Cluj, Romania. Although free from Auschwitz, Eva faced new oppression as Communists took over Romania. Eva and her sister emigrated to Israel in 1950, landing at the port in Haifa, Israel. Over the next 10 years, Eva attended an agricultural school, and went on to attain the rank of Sergeant Major in the Israeli Army Engineering Corps. In 1960, Eva married Michael Kor, an American citizen—and a fellow Holocaust survivor—whom she met when he was a tourist in Israel. Eva joined Michael in the United States. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eva Mozes Kor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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