Eva Mozes Kor (1934–2019)
Author of Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz
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Works by Eva Mozes Kor
The Twins of Auschwitz: The inspiring true story of a young girl surviving Mengele's hell (2020) 84 copies
Le gemelle di Auschwitz. Una storia vera. Le due sorelle deportate a soli dieci anni nel più terribile campo di… (2022) 2 copies
Echoes from Auschwitz: Dr. Mengele's Twins: The story of Eva and Miriam Mozes by Kor, Eva Moses, Wright, Mary… (1900) 1 copy
Return to Auschwitz 1 copy
Forgiving Dr. Mengele 1 copy
Tvillingarna i Auschwitz : en sann berättelse om kampen för överlevnad i Mengeles helvete (2022) 1 copy
Le gemelle di Auschwitz 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Kor, Eva Mozes
- Birthdate
- 1934-01-30
- Date of death
- 2019-07-04
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Romania
- Birthplace
- Port, Romania
- Place of death
- Krakow, Poland
- Places of residence
- Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
Cluj, Romania
Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
Israel - Occupations
- Holocaust survivor
memoirist - Relationships
- Zeiger, Miriam Mozes (twin sister)
- Organizations
- Holocaust Museum
Candles Holocaust Museum and Education Center - Short biography
- Eva Mozes Kor and her identical twin sister Miriam Mozes were born to a Jewish family in the tiny village of Porţ, Romania (later Hungary). Her parents, Alexander and Jaffa Mozes, had 4 daughters and enjoyed a comfortable living as landowners and farmers. When Eva and Miriam were six years old, at the start of World War II, their village was occupied by a Hungarian Nazi armed guard. In 1944, after four years of Nazi occupation, the family was transported to the ghetto in Şimleu Silvaniei. A few weeks later, they were put into a cattle car and transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Eva and Miriam were separated from the rest of their family and never saw them again. They became part of a group of children used as human subjects in genetic experiments under the direction of Josef Mengele. They survived this horror and were liberated by the Red Army in January 1945. They were sent to three different refugee camps over the next nine months before going to live with their aunt in Romania. The sisters emigrated to Israel in 1950. Eva joined a kibbutz and attended an agricultural school. She became a sergeant major in the Israeli Army Engineering Corps. She met Michael Kor, another Holocaust survivor and an American tourist, in Israel, and the couple were married in 1960 and went to live in the USA. In 1985, 40 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Eva Mozes Kor, Miriam Mozes, and other survivors conducted a mock trial of Josef Mengele that received international news coverage. She published her memoirs, Echoes from Auschwitz: Dr. Mengele's Twins: The Story of Eva and Miriam Mozes (1995) with Mary Wright, and Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz (2009) with Lisa Rojany Buccieri. The Candles Holocaust Museum she founded in Terre Haute, Indiana, was destroyed in 2003 by arsonists believed to be white supremacists, but was rebuilt.
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