#A-7063
#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.
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.
Their stay there only lasted a few weeks, before they were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp.
As twins, Eva and Miriam were selected to be part of Josef Mengele's experiments. They day they entered Auschwitz was the last time either of them saw any of their family. Alexander, Jaffa, Edit and Aliz were all sentenced to death.
Approximately, 1500 sets of twins were subjected to Mengele's experiments. Most of them died. At one point, Eva herself became very ill. For two weeks, she dealt with a high fever. Her first day there, she encountered Mengele, and remembers him saying "too bad she is so young, she will not last 2 weeks". She made herself a promise. She was going to prove him wrong. Her fever broke. After another five weeks, she recovered.
She was reunited with Miriam, who in the time that Eva was in the hospital, had lost her will to live. Eva would have to, not only regain her own will, but help Miriam with regain hers. She did.
On January 27, 1945, the twins, as well as others that were imprisoned at Auschwitz were liberated by the Soviet army.
Life on the outside would begin. The girls searched other camps and found a friend of their mothers named Rosalita Csengeri. Rosalita took responsibility for the girls and helped them return to Romania.
After the war ended, Eva and Miriam lived in Cluj, Romania with their Aunt Irene where they attended school and attempted to recover from life at Auschwitz as well as adjust to life under communist rule. In 1950, at age 16, the girls were granted permission to leave Romania and emigrate to Israel.
Once there, Eva attended an agricultural school, and then attained the rank of Sergeant Major in the Israeli Army Engineering Corps. In 1960, she met and married Michael "Mickey" Kor, an American citizen and fellow Holocaust survivor. Miriam remained in Israel where she married and started a family of her own.
Life in Terre Haute, Indiana would begin. Eva became an U.S. citizen in 1965, and the couple raised their two children, Alex and Rina.
As adults, Eva and Miriam both suffered serious health problems. Eva suffered from miscarriages and tuberculosis. Her son Alex had cancer as well. Miriam's kidney's never fully developed and she died in 1993 from a rare form of cancer, likely brought on by the unknown medical experiments and injections she was subjected to at the hands of Josef Mengele.
In 1984, Eva founded CANDLES, an acronym for "Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors". She began doing lectures and giving guided tours, in the hopes of educating people on what really happened with "Mengeles children". She returns to Auschwitz every couple of years, along with friends and people from the community.
In 2015, she traveled to Germany to testify in the trial of Oskar Groning. During the trial, Eva and Oskar shared an embrace and a kiss, with Eva thanking Oskar for his willingness, at the age of 93, to testify as to what happened more than 70 years ago.
Eva has been awarded the Sagamore of the Wabash Award twice, the Distinguished Hoosier Award, and Indiana's highest award the Sachem in 2017. She has received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Butler University, 2015 Wabash Valley Women of Influence Award,the 2015 Anne Frank Change the World Award and the 2015 Mike Vogel Humanitarian Award, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Eva Mozes prevailed.
She was always more than #A-7063.
She is Eva Kor. Daughter of Alexander and Jaffa. Sister of Edit, Aliz and Miriam. Wife of Mickey. Mother of Alex and Rina.
She is a survivor. A teacher. An inspiration.
To US ALL.
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| Map of the area |
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.
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| all their luggage in one. |
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| The gates to Auschwitz |
Approximately, 1500 sets of twins were subjected to Mengele's experiments. Most of them died. At one point, Eva herself became very ill. For two weeks, she dealt with a high fever. Her first day there, she encountered Mengele, and remembers him saying "too bad she is so young, she will not last 2 weeks". She made herself a promise. She was going to prove him wrong. Her fever broke. After another five weeks, she recovered.
"I was given five injections. That evening I developed extremely high fever. I was trembling. My arms and my legs were swollen, huge size. Mengele and Dr. Konig and three other doctors came in the next morning. They looked at my fever chart, and Dr. Mengele said, laughingly, 'Too bad, she is so young. She has only two weeks to live .."
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| Copy of one of Mengele's memos that were sent to Berlin along with his reports |
On January 27, 1945, the twins, as well as others that were imprisoned at Auschwitz were liberated by the Soviet army.
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| Eva & Miriam in a photo seen across the planet (they are circled in this copy) |
Life on the outside would begin. The girls searched other camps and found a friend of their mothers named Rosalita Csengeri. Rosalita took responsibility for the girls and helped them return to Romania.
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| Age 14 living in Cluj |
Once there, Eva attended an agricultural school, and then attained the rank of Sergeant Major in the Israeli Army Engineering Corps. In 1960, she met and married Michael "Mickey" Kor, an American citizen and fellow Holocaust survivor. Miriam remained in Israel where she married and started a family of her own.
Life in Terre Haute, Indiana would begin. Eva became an U.S. citizen in 1965, and the couple raised their two children, Alex and Rina.
As adults, Eva and Miriam both suffered serious health problems. Eva suffered from miscarriages and tuberculosis. Her son Alex had cancer as well. Miriam's kidney's never fully developed and she died in 1993 from a rare form of cancer, likely brought on by the unknown medical experiments and injections she was subjected to at the hands of Josef Mengele.
In 1984, Eva founded CANDLES, an acronym for "Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors". She began doing lectures and giving guided tours, in the hopes of educating people on what really happened with "Mengeles children". She returns to Auschwitz every couple of years, along with friends and people from the community.
In 2015, she traveled to Germany to testify in the trial of Oskar Groning. During the trial, Eva and Oskar shared an embrace and a kiss, with Eva thanking Oskar for his willingness, at the age of 93, to testify as to what happened more than 70 years ago.
Eva has been awarded the Sagamore of the Wabash Award twice, the Distinguished Hoosier Award, and Indiana's highest award the Sachem in 2017. She has received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Butler University, 2015 Wabash Valley Women of Influence Award,the 2015 Anne Frank Change the World Award and the 2015 Mike Vogel Humanitarian Award, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Eva Mozes prevailed.
She was always more than #A-7063.
She is Eva Kor. Daughter of Alexander and Jaffa. Sister of Edit, Aliz and Miriam. Wife of Mickey. Mother of Alex and Rina.
She is a survivor. A teacher. An inspiration.
To US ALL.
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| Eva's Motto |
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| Burnt display left from the original museum setting |
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| Myself with a memorable woman, Ms. Eva Mozes Kor 4/1/2017 |
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| "A Penny for a each life" After the firebombing of the original museum, firefighters spent time picking up a collection of pennies that had been displayed. Each Penny meant a life lost during the Holocaust. |
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