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nice nice and keeping. watch and. i will tell a story. i want their dollar story. there's a. mosque. on september 1st 939 nazi germany invaded poland the attack on a storm that had been gathering for 2 decades germany's to feel. and world war one

had left the country humiliated its economy shattered providing an opportunity for a radical nationalist movement led by at off it. hitler's rhetoric blamed those who had supposedly weakened the nation most of all he blamed the jews he was determined to expel every jew in germany and eventually beyond as the nazis expanded into austria czechoslovakia and elsewhere when the occupation of poland brought 2000000 jews under nazi control the notion of expulsion increasingly gave way to murder even in the most remote villages of europe no jew was safe. i was born in 1934 intensive binya all media in the diary village called port. we were the only jewish family is a village in windsor moses family is there where 6 people my father earl xander

my mother just my oldest sister my middle sister our lees and miriam and i went to a very few. and the nice singable being a poor. we always had the target so we never felt lonely. we lived on a be all in far. all with a lot of the world. i always remember being in the cherry tree. in the juicy cherries looking at the sky and then 940 i was 6 years old the hunger is out there by the village and everything change. when hungary allied with germany a nightmare began for jews in the country and its occupied territory evil recalls the 1st film she and miriam saw which depicted how to catch and kill a jew their school days became torture the kids started calling us names

miriam and me. dirty jews. then they could begin spitting on us dumping guards and beating our soldiers in the base the teacher did nothing. in dakar near munich the 1st nazi concentration camp was opened less than 2 months after hitler became german chancellor as anti semitic policies intensified the number of camps grew into the thousands increasingly they were used to detain jews with the so-called final solution the nazis $941.00. cision to annihilate the jews of europe a number of internment camps became killing centers most of the murders were done by gassing the corpses were buried in mass graves or burned in crematoria. auschwitz 1st opened in 1940 but soon proved too small so 2 years later

construction began on a new camp just over 2 kilometers away it would become the largest mass murder site in human history it was known as auschwitz 2 or birkenau. they came loose horses and they said that we have come to take you away. 3. that are lined with people. nobody smiled nobody said a war. between may and july 944 more than 430000 hungary and jews half of the pre-war population arrived at birkenau by cattle car railway tracks led directly into the camp to deliver the prisoners within 100 meters of the main gas chambers the most his family was among the 1st to step down on to the freshly hardened concrete of the unloading and selection platform in that scene was the running in the middle of the selection platform very

clearly yelling in german doings. you notes medium in me and he demanded to know if you've been playing them and one of the said yes and that moment then i would not see appear from nowhere poor my mother to the right. and i can see oh still as my mother than most of us dread jingled daughter. and she was pulled away. so much pain in her eyes. in that desire less inmates that i have of my muzzled. most underwent a different selection nearly 90 percent were immediately marched to the gas chambers men and women deemed stronger were sent in the opposite direction to a world of starvation and brutal labor until they died or were murdered for the right. to die. in the nazis attempt to

propagate a perfect every and race another group were subjected to medical experiments of greatest interest for sets of twins they were set aside in special barracks separated by gender and tattooed with a number on their arms eva and mary a moses became numbers 870-638-7064 in the morning they were awakened by a visit from the so-called angel of death dr joseph mengele. one of the supervisors guard this the man. everybody is $3000.00 like little soldiers he was at the cutting edge as he thought of it as not seen gen x. ray science he would establish by working on human beings enough for us on those twins not only maybe unlock the secrets of twin births so that after the war every good german mother could have 2 german children sort of just one but unlock the

secrets of how to engineer a race that looked more like the master race and that ambition overrode all conscience and sense of morality on monday wednesday and friday we would march a bomb to my inner may have the ocean it's one where we would be placed in a room naked for about 8 hours they would measure every part of my body compare it to my twin sister and compare it to char. born to think serious the south or maybe we would be taken to another lab where i call so beloved . you could have about 30 kids in here at that time. the chair was a little out of inflated there and we put our arms out. and they died this early and think there are 3 sermons and they took lots of blood from here and

lots of injections to hear the content of those injections we didn't know then nor do i know them today. after one injection eva became feverish and was taken to the hospital mengele determined she had only 2 weeks to live but eva defied him after a little more than a month she was back in the barracks and life as she knew it resumed experiments starvation stealing food surviving in a landscape of death. at times that seemed to be going on so little. and then suddenly it came to an end by january 1945 it was clear the nazis were on the brink of defeat and most of the auschwitz prisoners had been forced marched to other camps eva and merriam or among those left behind on january 27th the russians came.

there were lots of people they that already been wiped kamel for leisure in all i have no idea who was a where but there was not important one thing was important and they didn't look like the nazis and that had to be good. the russians were stunned by what they found around 7000 survivors most nearly frozen feeble barely able to move dead bodies littered the ground. there were $100.00 program among the pre-print. and they were now expected through. the joy of liberation was tempered by the terrible uncertainty of what had happened to their families but a flicker of hope remained i wanted to see my home. it was

such a must i cannot go on anywhere without seeing my whole we good. the journey home took 9 arduous months finally a year and a half after being taken from their home they were back in ports. so now we are finally heading called the running bell that you're. hoping that somebody would be home was something good would happen there. we ended. up at the. disappointment. disappointment and. sadness. you know that's got to be for the 11 year old just terribly traumatic and how do you deal with. where do i go what do we do. the homework i did in the book was only one of the walls. nobody who are supposed to be as i was there. the twins were

taken in by their aunt irena in a neighboring city where they lived for 5 years under communist rule you reyna had also suffered devastating loss her husband and son were murdered in the holocaust. in all 1100000 people were murdered in auschwitz 1000000 of them jews 3000 twins were subjected to experiments an estimated 200 survived in 1952 of those survivors eva and mary a moses now 16 embark for israel to start a new life. where 3000 people on the ship sailing with the military in 3 in riyadh i june 19th and i finally in the port the flight was early morning the summer of the rising of

one above the mount kind of moment and since all the people say. down in say the hebrew national anthem. 10 years later even moses was to arrive on yet another shore as a newly wed but still haunted by auschwitz always auschwitz. memorial claridge. we can those are the voices of the children saved from the ashes we will not let their walled forget what happened here in our streets we will show all the children their their grandparents hogged us all as a very less time. we were locked arrest until iraq there mangal

a scar and world to justice. ready ready for. during her decade in israel even attended an agricultural school and served in the army then she met an american tourist they had something in common michael mickey core a jew from latvia had been imprisoned in book involved and other camps for nearly 4 years he was liberated by a u.s. soldier from terre haute indiana and eventually moved there after he learned that his parents had been murdered he graduated from purdue university became a u.s. soldier and a pharmacist while visiting israel his life took another turn in the mirror full. of the offer. have all violin player lines are. all the latest

play all in play all. their early years in indiana seemed idyllic a son was born and then a daughter baseball games birthday parties bike riding with picnic lunches under the surface however a storm was raging a storm evil would only begin to understand decades later it was paid a lot of baseball. and a lot of anger. from the start eva felt isolated in indiana a young woman separated from her twin for the 1st time struggling with the language often on her own in a new world with 2 young kids a husband working double shifts and neighbors who couldn't relate to her. she was made fun of you know nobody respected her and i think she did still sense of purpose and sense of value. but then 3 decades after the war a 4 part mini series in 1978 called holocaust marked the 1st time the subject

entered the mainstream public consciousness. there's a call i want to joke about the docu drama the holocaust it had more impact than the original. catapulted the holocaust to the attention of not only the american people but also of the world. evoke or among them she called the terre haute and b c affiliate to see if the show would contain archival material. they said it wouldn't but asked her for an interview she appeared on t.v. twice while the series was being broadcast and attracted a lot of attention it was transformative. schools called asking eva to tell her story she did and encountered questions about the mengele experiments that she couldn't answer searching for answers would become

a lifelong mission she was reclaiming her life once she woke up and was like oh my god there was a lot that happened to me from that point forward then she began to really grow really grow. evil was determined to discover what had been done to her and miriam what they had been injected with especially miriam after she had experienced difficulties in her pregnancies her doctors discovered her kidneys had stopped growing when she was 10 in other words while she was in auschwitz for eva the 1st step in the hunt was clear find other surviving twins. was already very important lifesaving really important. in 1903 she attended the 1st major national holocaust memorial event in washington d.c. carrying a sign identifying herself as a twin tortured by mengele she left disheartened that hardly anyone had heard of

the mengele experiments and that amid all the ceremony very few actual survivors were asked to speak. she reached out to major newspapers magazines and television networks in the united states imploring them to help her find other mengele twins no one replied guess what nobody can. then one day she had an epiphany if she were to start an organization and named herself president the media would be more likely to listen to her that was the birth of candles children of auschwitz nazi deadly lab experiments survivors. around the same time she persuaded her brother in law in israel to put an advertisement in a major newspaper seeking other surviving twins there after all that effort she began to make progress 80 twins in israel came forward almost immediately and then

finally she was contacted by a journalist. and we got so many letters which we ignored but there was a quality about april. that totally grabbed may and i picked up the phone and i called beth what i do i think she was a real estate agent in terre haute indiana and there because this extraordinary and charming hers and mine and to this long ago which everybody had kind of swept aside. the call set off a series of events that would shed new light on the holocaust and have repercussions on the eve of course life as a new set lagnado worked on her comprehensive story on the mantel of twins eva had an idea on the 40th anniversary of their liberation have twins return to the scene of the crime make the world see them hear them it worked when the twins arrived in

birkenau on january 27th 1985 and when they followed up the visit with a mock trial of mengele in jada sham israel the press was there. this weekend is the anniversary of the end of a nightmare the end of a death camp called auschwitz the end of the unspeakable horrors committed by its chief medical officer i'm not so they named joseph. a worldwide search for those who are from but always given new impetus today by those who are his because that's put it on the radar for the mainstream media in a way that you couldn't have expected it joseph mengele is front and center and eva and the twins are responsible for having sparked that fire that is the day the mock trial ended the united states attorney general william french smith ordered the justice department to find mengele it became one of the biggest international manhunt in history israel and west germany joined in and rewards of several

$1000000.00 were offered. it was revealed with great fanfare that josef mengele his body had been found in a grave near south paolo brazil. a preliminary report stated that mengele had drowned 6 years earlier in 1979 while swimming off a nearby beach and that his skeleton had been authenticated quote within a reasonable scientific certainty and quote but the woman who helped initiate the hunt remains skeptical eva took to the airwaves. what is sure shown to the reports the doctor that. i do not believe you because in just that you can make sense just so she took out a 2nd mortgage on her home to finance an $18000.00 inquest on mengele in terre haute none of it made

a ripple but the mengele findings were clearly labeled preliminary the public had moved on case closed. almost of my back of better luck nobody understood. maybe even to give a 130. but i couldn't give how. i can ever give up on the terms. in 1907 eva moses core was at rock bottom she had few friends because no one seemed to care about and was treated with scorn by the nation's biggest holocaust organizations in the fall of that year eva flew to israel to donate a kidney to her ailing sister. as miriam's condition continued to deteriorate the fight to find mengele or at least his files took on an air of desperation how fast to forget where you got breath 4 years ago we

read in this building the wall think the shell that they carry. so fast they don't tell me what i want to major not the cream you know that is running. the final report conclusively stating the body was magnus was not published until $199027.00 and a half years after the investigation began it included several key pieces of evidence not used in the initial report and was apparently clinched by a d.n.a. match between the body and magnussen wharf. it was a conclusion that eva continued to disagree with questioning whether the correct d.n.a. was used if they took the blood themselves from it and it was used a d.n.a. match they might say afterwards how do we know it was done correctly once it was sent off there's always a reason to still have that doubt by burying him putting him 6 feet into the ground

by putting away the ghosts of mengele they've put away so many years of this quest to find me standing there in front of him and saying i am the 10 year old girl or me and my sister mary and we were 10 when you 1st took us guess what with us over have seen from me finally brought out and i will woman standing here to tell you that i've survived and you fail. in 1903 miriam moses died of cancer related to her kidney problems she was 59 years old because of the jewish practice of burying the body within 24 hours eva was unable to attend the funeral. the the i got a. message from cookie the husband. that your letter this morning. i was not prepared.

to live you no more do without. again there was. all that she did experienced over the years the isolation harassment rebirth anger accomplishment and rejection always led her back to auschwitz now it had taken yet another toll in every way it came back to auschwitz. now i even mole's a sport if we will see if that child does that make a living spirit oh shit 50 years ago he had to buy give amnesty to all

these who participate that directly it would immediately is a matter of my family and millions of other things i even moses scored in my name only if every with the big good stuff i don't go. it was a decision of a lifetime which on the surface came about almost by chance shortly after merriam's death evil was invited to a conference about medical ethics accompanied by a peculiar request could she bring along a nazi doctor. for better or find one of those. less than i who knew her telephone book they were not ever i think it was. a couple of years earlier eva had taken part in a german documentary that included a nazi doctor called hans minaj you forgotten touch with him and mentor agreed to be interviewed at his home in bavaria. eva

had her own agenda and was disappointed when munch said he had never worked with minima and had no idea where his files were however much had more to say. you see so i guess seeing. through. this my brother. munch agreed to document what he witnessed and go to auschwitz with eva 2 presented in person for months eva considered how to thank him and it hit her. forgiveness she would forgive dr much for his crimes as a nazi she wrote him a letter and headed edited by her speech professor. i remember it could take your. say ok so much but what about mengele what about all the other s.s. you know are you just going to forgive munch because he's there you forget the problem is not that was that the movie. problem is was the mengele. i went home

closed the door picked up a dictionary made the list of 20 in there still wards. which i read clearly all through that may very mengele in my role. in the license in spite of all that. i forgive you for her ringback that was the thing to do. something was stuck and whatever that was 'd i did not sense that in her anymore after she went through that act of forgiveness person you're going to do what you're going to do what. and so on the 50th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz on january 27th 1995 evil moses court returned once again this time armed not with anger but peace. you know more

was no more gas gambit. no more. no more hatred you know more killing. and no motivation. but even as moment of personal liberation was not to everyone's liking how could she forgave someone that tortured. horace amoy and tortured her sister and i says that died because of it. i'll never understand 6000000 people died how could she for care. if they're not of all the bold acts of evil course of life i am healed in that it was this forgiveness that form turned legacy and that is still debated today. do i deserve still move free. to me. and i be commander with again me owns of my be there i do. most of all eva's choice to forgive is about

self healing and self empowerment shedding the emotional and psychological burden of what happened to her and with that the nazis control over her this way she says she was free to resume her life without anger or pain a. scene or watch. forgiveness is a new order police. evil always made clear that it wasn't about forgetting on the contrary she fought to keep the memory of the holocaust alive so it would never be repeated this forgiveness had nothing to do with religion it was not for the perpetrator nor for anyone else it is only for herself at some question whether such a self oriented undertaking even if there are putin could be considered true forgiveness others said that especially in judaism forgiveness had to be earned and

the nazis had done nothing to that it. look i'm operating out of a deeply for a profoundly jewish religious half of. christianity in some of its unsure petitions. has an easier view of forgiveness because of cross stud foursomes. it's not that we have not sinned but we are forgiven and gross is available to us through christ. we jews are a little bit more tenacious about it. even son says he has issues with his mother's decision to forgive and yet he's witnessed its effects on his mother and on others the big criticism is why does she have to be so public with her forgiveness and i do agree that i think it's very selfish and mother to do this on the other hand she's touched so many more lives than she would have if she would have kept herself

. amid all the objection and debate even moses corps continued her mission 3 months after forgiving the nazis eva opened the candles museum in a small strip mall in terre haute it remains the only museum in the world specifically commemorating the twins in the magna experiments and advocating forgiveness the museum is dedicated to miriam. we are a small museum has small place was a big message cimetidine let it move shake 3 m. placing these from our award let the thing begin with me. tonight it's a company we all know 2 years after opening her museum eva kaur filed a lawsuit against the german pharmaceutical byre claiming it tested its drugs on

concentration camp inmates the claim along with others against further german companies helped lead to a $5000000000.00 settlement a stablished by germany that distributed money to thousands of victims. even if that they should fail restitution. she also released her 1st book she oversaw community projects she pushed to get the holocaust on the curriculum of indiana public schools she became an active force protesting genocide of all kinds she spoke out about racial prejudice and as each year brought more people to her museum the teacher learned something herself that from her new position she had the power to make wife's better i know it's some kind of idea the sikh id is that i could lose my little idea of forgiveness i could somehow doubt hills or want.

but if i help heal one single person. i am already have. all of the records that i have to new if somebody doesn't quite fit help them 15 accept them for they are. you might help somebody or desperately need to. forgive your lord and i mean it would hear your soul and it will set you free. dylan parent and katrina website were both victims of horrendous violent assault they say that without eva they wouldn't be alive today. even gave me forgiveness as an option as a path that i could take as a method of healing and it was something that i thought was completely out of my power and out of my control and. completely on the other end she said forget it not for that for you. and i made it all the difference just

forgive me but all this weight on my shoulders just went away. and she did that for me and it's the biggest thing anyone's ever done. not even a tragic setback could weaken her determination. a little piece of history is lost tonight on nov 18th 2003 the candles museum was destroyed by arson so my choice and so much one of them might. get kicked off a movement the reconstruction of beavis museum put her back in the national spotlight but this time the public was far more sympathetic. gave a call. for sure by the total cost of the structure of her kindles museum and terrible about to reveal her sacrifice the other husband might ensures that goes the movie exposed the big intolerance and bigotry will also be exposed to love charity and mutual respect even michael thank you for being with us.

even some of those who remained adamantly opposed to forgiving the nazis began to respect the force for good evil was becoming the. what's legal called. cheese and cruz cautiousness the holocaust she was the as a vehicle to racism and prejudice to argue for human rights and human decency to educate the younger generation she's built an institution that looks like it's going to take off. what a magnificent contribution was. over time things began to change the state of indiana which hadn't been particularly welcoming to the lonely

and struggling immigrant was proudly proclaiming her as one of its own a jewish community in which she too long been an outcast began seeing her in a new light and steven spielberg show a foundation memorialized her with an interactive hologram. do you think another holocaust is possible. over the evening also. and somewhere along the line this woman who had felt so alone found something new she knows she's not alone that. she knows she has all of us. seeing that i see have. 1000 of them about thousands of people who appreciate. the struggle she has been through and what she does. for them and others. in 2017 at age 83 evil moses course seemed unstoppable

a video interview with buzz feed got more than $185000000.00 views and speeches once in front of dozens were now in front of thousands yet at heart even remained the small town woman she'd been for nearly 60 years and the core family had been through a lot like mickey their daughter rena doesn't like to talk about the holocaust but they stuck together through it all and even as thrice weekly lectures at her museum remain. in a nice. i see it every day. doesn't matter what she's going through. she needs this museum she needs to be here she is a deal was she death. yet once again as always there was auschwitz. she returned every year leading to years no longer to protest but to pay respect to teach to not let the world forget.

but the pain remained israel let myself feel. and i remember hold more than the beds. in it was not fun. but things changed in her later years it was at auschwitz that even most its core felt most alive. when i come back here i will come back yes indeed. i come back as if the stories survive. we are free we hope. that's what she offers. and that's what the world needs. that's kind of the the beauty of either hate me or leave it right teach the war we celebrate the fire that you know

a survivor gets give an award i know he was being given was wonderful and so she should what we haven't actually done is turn around and said to people like eva thank you. thank you in spite of the fight that you've had everything taken from you everything destroy it's that you had no hope of justice whatsoever personally that you have pursued the truth relentlessly and what's more you then go on to say . i want you to learn to forgive one another because that will lead to greater kindness in our world. we should be saying thank you never mind she has no right to forgive or what just thank you for the struggle. or watch your say good work the. good work you do or you are succeeding. that. i would say mom. i'm very proud of you they may think.

of that your not. but their mother i could buy my i begged her for. she rolls me and she will lead and she fires and she laughed and she is mighty and she is the best. for her. and so many people aspire. she led. sure. man i don't know the story you all are guiding like you my life i send them elsewhere to would you be proud of me. i hope so i hope there my message that comes directly from you if you will leave me some more to hear.

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