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kid i am. sick closest place to hell just looks. and standing here. and there's a camp. all trains to keep me. going i cannot believe. that so many millions. f. put off the wall has been muslim. and want to do something to say i'm walking here from. you.
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and i see the pink. shirt and. i will tell a story. i will do our story. because a. mosque. on september 1st 939 nazi germany invaded poland the attack on a storm that had been gathering for 2 decades germany's defeat. and world war one
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had left the country humiliated its economy shattered providing an opportunity for a radical nationalist movement led by at off the. hitler's rhetoric blamed those who had supposedly weakens 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 a big media room media in the dining village called port. weaver is the only jewish family is a village in windsor moses family is there where 6 people my father alexander my mother just all. my middle sister are lees and miriam and i
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went with very few. and the nuns singable being a poor. we always had the tardes and so we never felt lonely. we lived on a be all far. all church with a lot of trees i always remember being under the cherry tree in the juicy cherries looking at the sky and in 1004th year i was 6 years old and the hunger is out there by a dollar 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
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miriam in me. and dirty jew and. then they'd begin spitting on us dumping girls and beating ourselves up base the teacher did not sink. 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
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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 we have come to take you away. this 3. they're lined with people. nobody smiled nobody said of 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 and nothing was running in the
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middle of this election platform very clearly yelling in german doing. you know this medium in me and he demanded to know if we will win them my mother said yes and that moment then other nazi appeared from nowhere poor my mother to do that right and i can see still as my mother than most of us straight to the articles and she was good the way. it was so much pain in her eyes. invented the latest in me that i have of my mother. 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
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propagate a perfect area and race another group was 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 stricken don't like little soldiers he was at the cutting edge as he thought of it it's not seen a gray 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 instead of just one but unlock the
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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 and wednesday and friday we would march of all the minor may have to auschwitz one then we would be placed in a room naked for about $80.00 or they would measure every part of my body compare it to my twin sister and compare it to chart mon choose the service again south or maybe we would be taken to another lab where i call so blood . you could have about 30 kids in here at the time. they had a chair that was a little out of the play there and they put our arms out. and they died this earn and think there are 3 sentiments and they took a lot of blood from here and lots of injections and to hear the content of those
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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 even 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. kinds 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 were among those left behind on january 27th the russians came.
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there were lots of people they that already been wiped come off a luxury all i had no idea who was a where but there was not important what was seen was important and they didn't look like they're not and that have 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 programs among. them 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 hope. it was
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such a must i cannot go on anywhere without seeing my home again. 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 cold running down the. 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. in the home that i did in the book was only one of the walls. nobody who are supposed to be there was there. the
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twins were taken in by their aunt irena in a neighboring city where they lived for 5 years under communist rule and 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 1052 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 a year i june 19th and i finally in the port the flight was early morning this summer the rising of the bulk of the amount of money. and
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since all the peoples. good out and 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 its. memorial claridge. we can the art of their voices of the children saved from the ashes we will not let their world forget what happened here in our church. we will show or the children they have their good and their aunts haag us for their very last time. we were locked out as
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the until dr mengele is caught and brought to justice. 'd 'd or. 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 it was a mere full dream. of the offer. you have all violin playing behind you. at all in the store and all of. the early years in
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indiana seemed idyllic a son was born and then a daughter baseball games birthday parties bike riding with picnic launches 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 1988 called holocaust marked the 1st time the subject
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entered the mainstream public consciousness. there's a quote i want to joke about the duck you draw on the whole cost it had more impact than the original. catapulted the holocaust to the attention of not only the merkel people but also of the world . eva kaur 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 mega experiments that she couldn't answer searching for answers would become
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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. it was very very important lifesaving really important. in 1983 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
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the mengele experiments and that amid all this 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
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finally she was contacted by a journalist. and we got so many letters which we ignored but there was a quality about. it that totally grabbed may and i picked up the phone and i called this woman who i think she was a real life agent in terre haute indiana and their big. extraordinary charney hers and mine and to this long ago world 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 eve of course life as lucette lagnado worked on her comprehensive story on the mengele 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
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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 other speakable horrors committed by its chief medical officer i'm not so they named joseph the. the worldwide search for those for profit always give a new impetus today by those who are his but 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
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$1000000.00 were offered. it was revealed with great fanfare that use of megaliths 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. to the reports that talk to my list that. i do not believe because in just that even make sense yes she took out a 2nd mortgage on her home to finance an $18000.00 inquest on magna in terre haute none of it made
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a ripple of the mandela findings were clearly labeled preliminary the public had moved on case closed. almost of my back of better low nobody of the story. maybe even 2 going to want to understand. but i couldn't give up. i can't 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 best to forget where he is the path for you to go you
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back in this building the wall think the shell that they carry. so fast they don't care when you want to walk in major not the clean you know that is running. the final report conclusively stating the body was mentalist 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 mengele son while if. 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 in a d.n.a. match they might say afterwards how do we know it was done correctly once it was sent off and there's always a reason to still have that doubt by burying him putting him 6 feet into the ground
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by putting away that ghost of mengele they've put away so many years of this quest to find me standing there in front of him and saying i have a 10 year old girl over me and my sister mary and we were 10 when you 1st took us guess what there's over and see it from me finally brought out and i will woman standing here to tell you that i've survived and when you fail. in 1903 miriam moses died of cancer related to her kidney problems she was 59 years old and because of the jewish practice of burying the body within 24 hours eva was unable to attend the funeral. near. the the i got a. message from cookie their hearts but. that your letter this morning. i was not prepared.
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to live you know would without. again there was auschwitz 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. even more as a sport if only you can see if a child joseph mengele experiments oh shit 50 years ago he had a by give amnesty to all these who participated directly or
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indirectly is a murderer of my family and millions of other i even moses or in my name only if he for amnesty because it's the right to 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 put q. your request could she bring along a nazi doctor. should better find one of those guys. less than i who knew the 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 mensch even gotten touch with him and mentor agreed to be interviewed at his home in bavaria. i was very. evil had
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her own agenda and was disappointed when munch said he had never worked with magnum law and had no idea where his files were however mention had more to say. you see again seeing. through. this my brother. munch agreed to document what he witnessed and go to auschwitz with eva to present it in person for months eva considered how to thank him and it hit her. forgiveness she would forgive dr munch for his crimes as a nazi she wrote him a letter and had it 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 me because he's there for your problem is
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not always dr mukwege your problem is was the. guy went home closed the door picked up a dictionary made the least of 20 and they're still wards. which i read clearly all through that may really mengele my rule. and then i said in spite of all that. i forgive you for her ringback that was the thing to do. something was stuck and whatever that was 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. to no more
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watts no more gas. no more bombs no more hate. you no more killing. no more option. but even moment of personal liberation was not to everyone's liking how could she forgive someone that tortured her or similarly and tortured her sister and i says that died because of it. i'll never understand 6000000 people died how could she forgive. him not even out of all the bold acts of evil course life i am he'll be it was this forgiveness that form turn legacy and that is still debated today. do i deserve to live free. to me. and i be commander with any owns of my being there i.
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most of all evils 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 nazi's control over her this way she says she was free to resume her life without anger or pain they. either think or was. forgiveness if he or 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
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the nazis had done nothing to that in. look i'm operating out of a deeply profoundly jewish religious outlook. christianity in some of it since reports. has an easier view of forgiveness because of christ died for our sins that it's not that we have not settled but we are forgiven and grosses available to us through christ. we jews are a little bit more tenacious about it. davis 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 a 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
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moses core continued her mission 'd 3 months after forgiving the nazis even open 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 manga experiments and advocating forgiveness the museum is dedicated to miriam. we are a small museum has small blaze was a big message their message is. they move hey 3 of em painted these from our board let the thing begin with the 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
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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. given if you think they should fail or think you should. 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 my voice better i know it's some kind of idea we speak id that i could lose my little idea of forgiveness i could somehow help out fields of want. but if i help heal one single person. i am all of the
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have. all of the records if i have to knew if somebody doesn't quite fit in helps them fit in accept them for they are. you might help somebody or desperately need to. forgive your lord and me it would heal your soul and the earth set you free. dylan parent and katrina wimps out 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 team and she said forget it not for that for you and i made it all the difference just for
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giving it 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 and i'm. 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 much more and so much was on my to get. it 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. able. to survive the court costs going to the structure of her kids museum a terrible crowd to rebuild her sacrifice and then editor husband mike ensures that those who may be exposed the big intolerance and bigotry will also be exposed to love charity and mutual respect even michael thank you for being with us.
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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 evil called. she's increased cautiousness the holy ghost she used that 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 to watch. over time things began to change the state of indiana which had been particularly welcoming to the lonely and
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struggling immigrant was proudly proclaiming her as one of its own a jewish community in which she 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. the eve of horseshit. 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. she knows she has. 1000 or 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 of course seemed unstoppable
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a video interview with buzz feed got more than 185000000 views and speeches once in front of dozens were now in front of thousands get it hard 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. a nice. i think 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 tours no longer to protest but to pay respect to teach to not let the world forget.
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but the pain remained if i let myself feel. i remember hold more than the bench. can afford not for. but things changed in her later years it was at auschwitz that even moses core felt most alive. when i come back here i will come back as the. i come back as a victorious sort of bible. 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 we'll leave it right each the war we celebrate the fight the you
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know a survivor gets given an award i know he was being given was wonderful and so she should what we haven't actually done is turned around and said to people like eva thank you. thank you in spite of the fact that you've had everything taken from you everything destroyed the you had no hope of justice whatsoever personally but 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 we're just thank you for the struggle. good work. good work. you are succeeding. better i would say mom. i'm very proud of you and you may think because i
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had one or not i. never i i i i begged her for. growth and she will live and she fires and she while i'm gone and she's mighty and she is with. foreigners. and so many people. she well. she well. i don't know the story you oh so good i didn't like in my life i sent them a story and said would you be proud of me. i hope so i hope that my message that comes directly from you is illegal aliens a want to hear. one
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