Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Survival From The Holocaust Twin Experiment

Eva Mozes Kor, Born in 1934 along with her twin sister Miriam.


         Around 1944, From a village in Transylvania, Romania, Eva and her family arrived to a concentration camp in Auschwitz were the surrounding was no less than a gruesome nightmare. People were selected whether to be killed or kept alive.
           As an impotent ten-year old, Eva tried to examine the situation but as far as her scrutiny, there was only a huge tumultuous crowd. She soon notices the absence of her father and her two older siblings; she and her twin Miriam held onto their mom with utmost fear.

A Nazi officer yelled in german "Twins! Twins!", pointing at Eva and Miriam; asking their mother whether they were genuinely twins. Their mother asked the officer whether it a good thing that they are twins, the officer agreed and immidiately separated the twins from their mom. Eva could cry as loud as she could, so did her mother. Very little did Eva and Miriam know that it would be the last time seeing their mother.
The twins were used human experiments. Eva experienced two types of experiments; on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays Eva along with many other twins would be kept undraped in a room for unto eight hours a day, where their body parts would get measured. On alternative days, (Sundays, Tuesdays and Saturdays) they would go through multiple blood tests, following a minimum of five obscure injections. Eva mentions how neither did she know then nor does she know now about what those injections were for.

Those sadistic experiments were performed by Doctor Josef Mengele who was also known as "Angel of Death", in order to discover the method of increasing the birthrate of Aryan master race (people of European and Western Asian heritage).
These experiments inevitably caused Eva to get very ill, her high fever restricted all her movement abilities for a while. She was taken to the hospital where she noticed people who looked more dead than alive to her. The doctors claimed that she would only survive for another two weeks; meanwhile, Eva would encourage herself to survive as she would fade out very often. Fortunately, she survived and soon went back to the laboratory where Miriam was kept. Eva observes Miriam's eerie behavior but does not ask any further questions because her sister did not want to discuss about it.
         Eva and Miriam were liberated by the Soviet army in 1945. After getting married to another concentration camp survivor Michael Kor, Eva suffered several miscarriages and tuberculosis, but she still held onto her remarkable strength. She became the founder of Holocaust museum and education centering Terre haute, Indiana.
         A while after Miriam's death in 1993, Eva decided to forgive Doctor Mengele despite of his cruel deeds as a form of self-healing. Eva realizes how many other human experiment survivors denounced her and she unequivocally understood why, but since she believed she had the power to forgive, she utilized it to get a tribulation off of her chest.

6 comments:

  1. very pretty blog, the picture of the twins are very cute and their story is very touching

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  2. Alot of work put in the blog it's really long and touching

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  3. Your blog looks very professional! The story that you are trying to tell us is well written and heartbreaking.

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