Eva Mozes-Kor
“Out of 1,500 sets of twins, only 200 individuals survived the camp.” (Rubenstein 1) When Eva Mozes-Kor was a child she went through unimaginable abuse. She was sent to Auschwitz where she and her twin was the subject of dangerous experiments. She went through things no child should have to face. After all she was put through she chose to forgive the people who tormented her and moved on to make something of her life.
First, Eva’s life started out normal. She and her identical twin Miriam were born on January 31, 1934 in Portz, Transylvania, Romania. (Buccieri 1) Her family owned a large farm with many crops, animals, vineyards, and orchards. (Buccieri 6) Her father was a religious Jew. (Buccieri 3) When the Nazis began to take control the girls were picked on at school and called “dirty, smelly Jews.” (Buccieri 12) When Hungarian Nazi youth began to surround their home the Mozes family tried to escape in the middle of the night, but it was unsuccessful. (Buccieri 5)…show more content… When they arrived Eva and Miriam were separated and never saw their family again. (Rubenstein 1) Because the girls were identical twins, Dr. Josef Mengele was interested in them.(Rubenstein 1) Dr. Mengele was known as the “Angel of Death.” (Rubenstein 1) Mengele did cruel things to the twins such as injecting them with deadly diseases, injecting them with chemicals, did experiments and constant testing, and even tried to change children’s genders and eye colors. (Buccieri 46) Eva recalls finding dead children in the latrine and promising herself that she wouldn’t die. (Rubenstein 1) Eva, Miriam, and the other twins were made to spend hours a day naked in an exam room to be experimented on. (Rubenstein 1). On January 27, 1945 the girls were liberated. (Buccieri
