Eva Kor: The Holocaust survivor who forgave the Nazis | BBC Ideas
[Music] one day in 1944 my family and I were arrested packed into cattle trains with no food or water we were taken to Poland and left on the selection platform in Auschwitz kinetic army spotted me and my identical twin sister Miriam clinging to
my mother he told us from my mother's arms and led us away I remember looking back at my mother I did not know at that time but I would never see her again [Music] on the filthy floor where the scattered corpses of three little girls their bodies were naked and their eyes were wide open it was a horrifying look I have never seen anybody dead before so that hit me very very hard and I made a silent pledge that I will do whatever is within my power to make sure that Miriam and I will not end up on that latrine floor and that we somehow will survive and walk out of this camp alive we were naked for hours and every part of our bodies was measured it was horrible and humiliating too bad she's so young she has only two weeks to live I knew he was right but I refused to die if I die Miriam would have been given a missile injection so he could cut open both of our bodies and compare the autopsies for the following two weeks I was between life and death and all I remember crawling on the barrack floor because I know Hoover could walk and as I was crawling I would fade in and out of consciousness and I kept telling myself I must survive I must survive nine months later we returned home only to find that nobody else from our family survived to find only three crumbled pictures and that was all that was left of my family in 1987 I donated one of my kidneys to save her but she died in 1993 and I was devastated she was the only one from the family who was alive I was angry I was heading to Germany to meet an athlete after I was unbelievably nervous and scared dr.
moon at the time was 82 years old he greeted me with kindness respect and consideration I was blown away a Nazi treating me with respect dr.
Hans mood was a bacteriologist at Auschwitz but he also had a secondary job that he was stationed outside the gas chambers and when people were dead he would sign one death certificate no names just the number of people who were murdered and he said to me this is my problem this is a nightmare that I'll avoid I asked him if he was willing to go with me to Auschwitz and make the same statement that he made to me and he said he would love to [Music] I knew that was a crazy idea the same cannot see a survivor of oh to st.
a Nazi people would think that I have lost my mind I tried to figure out how to thank him and after 10 months a simple idea popped into my head how about a letter of forgiveness from me the survivor of Auschwitz I knew that that was a meaningful gift for him but what I discovered for myself was life-changing that I had the power to forgive no one could give me that power no one could take it away to challenge myself I decided I could even forgive Mengele the person who had put me through hell it wasn't easy but I felt an enormous weight had been lifted from me I finally felt free who decided that I as a victim must before the rest of my life said angry feel hopeless and helpless I refused it you can never change what happened in the past all you can do is change how you reacted my sister and either made into human guinea pigs our whole family was murdered but I have the power to forgive and so do you [Music] [Music] thanks for watching don't forget to subscribe and click the bail to receive notifications for new videos see you again soon.
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