Photographing History

It all began with an invitation from the Bishop Simon Brute from the Diocese of Vincennes in early 1840 to the Sisters of Providence of Ruille-Sur-Loir France to open a school. Sister St. Theodore Guerin accompanied by five other sisters: Sister St. Vincent Ferrer (Victoire) Gagé, Sister Basilide (Josephine) Sénéschal, Sister Olympiade (Therese) Boyer, Sister Mary Xavier (Francis Louise) Lerée and Sister Mary Liguori (Louise Frances) Tiercin were the ones chosen to come.   After a rough journey across the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern United States, the sisters arrived in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana in October 1840.   On October 22, 1840, The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods was formed.  Since that date, over 5200 women have entered the Sisters of Providence.  Educators from the beginning, the Sisters began to build an all girls school called "The Academy" in 1840. The first student arrived on July 4, 1841. Over time, th...

#A-7063 has a name.  She has a twin sister.  She has 2 older sisters.  She has parents.  She is not just a number.  But to the German Government during World War II, she was Auschwitz prisoner #A-7063. Map of the area Eva Mozes Kor was born in 1934 in Romania.  She was the youngest of 4 girls born to Alexander and Jaffa Mozes.  Her older sisters were Edit, Aliz and her twin sister was named Miriam. They grew up as the only Jewish residents in their town.  By the time the twins were 6 in 1940, their area of Romania had been taken over by the Hungarian-Nazi regime.   In 1944, the family was sent to the Simleu Silvaniel ghetto.   all their luggage in one.   Their stay there only lasted a few weeks, before they were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The gates to Auschwitz As twins, Eva and Miriam were selected to be part of Josef Mengele's experiments. They day they entered Auschwitz was the ...