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on september 1st 939 nazi germany invaded poland the attack unleashed a storm that had been gathering for 2 decades germany's to. phaeton 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 be near me in a tiny village called port. weavers only jewish families
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a village in windsor moses family is there where 6 people my father alexander my mother just all this is my middle sister our lives and miriam and i went with very few. and the nuns singable being a poor. we always had the tides of so we never felt lonely. we lived on a be all and far. be all just with a lot of the world. i always remember being in the cherry tree in the juicy cherries looking at the sky and in 1004th year i was 6 years old and the hunger is argued by the village and they're getting to an age. when hungary allied with germany a nightmare began for jews in the country and its occupied territory evil recalls
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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 mainly. due to jews. then they could begin speaking on us dumping girls and beating us all in the face the teacher did nothing. and dark around 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 a so-called final solution the nazis $941.00. decision 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.
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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 hungry 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 moses family was among the 1st to step down on
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to the freshly hardened concrete of the unloading and selection platform and nothing was running in the middle of the selection platform very clearly yelling in german doings. you know this medium in me and he demanded to know if we had been playing them my mother said yes and that moment then other not the appear from nowhere poor my mother the goods are right. and i can see still as my mother than most of us dread to the water gods and she whispered the way. it was so much pain in her eyes. in that desire lays in me that i am 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
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a world of starvation and brutal labor until they died or were murdered for the right. to let the left 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 of the guard is the man. everybody's $3000.00 like you the photos he was at the cutting edge as he thought of it it's not seen generates a great science he would establish by working on human beings who knows 1st on
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those twins not only maybe unlock the secrets of twin births of that after the war every good german mother could have 2 german children instead of just one but unlock the secrets of how to engineer the race the plot more like the master race and that ambition over rode all conscience and sense of morality on monday wednesday and friday we would march a bomb to my room have the ocean it's one there 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. mole choose the service again south their name we would be taken to another lab that i call so beloved. you could have about 30 kids in here at the time. they had chairs it was a little out of the sleigh there and they put our arms out. and they died
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this early i think there are 3 servants and they took a lot 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 megalo 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. kinds that seemed to be going on so we're told. and then suddenly it came to an end by january 1945 it was clear the nazis were on the brink of defeat and
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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. there there were lots of people they that all read the white come all for leisure in 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 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 program among the free press. and they were now expected through. the joy of liberation was tempered by the terrible uncertainty of what had happened to
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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 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 called the running down to your. hoping that somebody would be whole was something good would happen there. we ended. up at the. disappointment. this appointment and. the sadness. you know that's got to be for 11 year olds us terribly traumatic and how do you deal with. who do i go what do we do.
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the whole movie i did in the book was only one of the walls. nobody who was supposed to be there was there. the 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 1952 of those survivors eva and mary a moses now 16 embark for israel to start a new life. where 3 found the people on a ship sailing the military and for every hour i june
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19th and i finally in the port of haifa it was early morning the sun was rising over above the mount carmel. and sitting sell the people's. no doubt in saying 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 shit. memorial play each. we can those are their voices of the children saved from the ashes we will not let their walled forget what happened here in our. we will show or the children they have their
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grandparents haag us for their very last time. we were luck to rest until dr mengele is caught and brought 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 he was
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a little full. on the long haul for. several violin player long lines or. at all the lowest level of play all. the early years in indiana seemed idyllic a son was born and then a daughter baseball games birthday parties bike riding with picnic lunch is 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 feel
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a sense of purpose a 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 entered the mainstream public consciousness. there's a quote 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 terra 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
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story she did and encountered questions about the mega experiments that she couldn't answer searching for answers would become a lifelong mission she was really claiming 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 1903 she attended the 1st
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major national holocaust memorial event in washington d.c. carrying a sign identifying herself as a twin tortured by magna she left disheartened that hardly anyone had heard of 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
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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 it. that totally grabbed may and i picked up the phone and i called this woman who i think she was a relief agent and in terre haute indiana and their. extraordinary charney 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 eve of course life as a new set lagnado worked on her comprehensive story on the mantel of twins eva had
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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 the. a worldwide search but there's always given new and with us 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 they 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
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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 use of mentalist 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. offered a sure shot. to the reports that talked about that and i do not believe it because in just that it would make sense just so she took out
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a 2nd mortgage on her home to finance an $18000.00 inquest on mengele in terre haute none of it made a ripple of the mantle of findings were clearly labeled preliminary the public had moved on case closed. almost all my back of i don't know. nobody understood it. maybe even to give 810-0000. 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
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deteriorate the fight to find mengele or at least his files took on an air of desperation how best to forget where you got pets 4 years ago we read in this building the walled theme to show well that they care. so fast they don't care don't you want i want you made you're not the cream you know that is running. the final report conclusively stating the body was mentalist was not published until $99027.00 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 roy 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 a d.n.a. match they might say afterwards how do we know it was done correctly once it was
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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 of finally 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 and sitting in front of me 5 me brought down 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. near. the b. i got a. message from cookie the husband. that
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your letter this morning. i was not prepared. to live you no more do 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 malls or sports if only you could see where if a child does that make
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a living experiment oh shit 50 years ago he had to buy give amnesty to all these who participate that directly or indirectly is a bit of my family and millions of i even moses for my name only if he ever missed the big star i took. 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. chevette over for dinner i am one of those guys. less than i who knew the telephone book they were not there i think occur. a couple of years earlier if i had taken part in
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a german documentary that included a nazi doctor called hans minch even got in touch with him and mentor agreed to be interviewed at his home in bavaria. i was very. evil had her own agenda and was disappointed when much said he had never worked with manga and had no idea where his files were however much had more to say. you see that 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 in particular.
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say ok so much but what about mengele what about all the other s.s. you know are you just going to forgive much because he's there you forget the problem is not always that the mood. problem is was the mangler. guy went home closed the door picked up a dictionary made a list of 20 and they're still wards. which i rarely clearly all do that may really mengele my rule. 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
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armed not with anger but peace. no more watts no more gas gambit. no more bombs no more hatred you know more killing. but even his moment of personal liberation was not to everyone's liking how could she forgive someone that tortured. or some only and tortured her sister and i says that died because of it. i'll never understand 6000000 people died how could she folk here. if they're not of all the bold acts of evil course life i am healed in that it was this forgiveness that formed to legacy and that is still debated today. do i
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deserve to move freely. to me. and i declare with me own 2 of my being there i. 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 nazi's control over her this way she says she was free to resume her life without anger or pain anger. or was. forgiveness as thing or a nice. 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
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a self oriented undertaking even if there are putin could be considered true forgiveness other said that especially in judaism forgiveness had to be earned and 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. it's not that we have not sinned but we are forgiven the grosses available to us through christ. we jews are a little bit more tenacious about it. eva 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
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do agree that i think it's very selfish and limb other 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 even 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 mengele experiments and advocating forgiveness the museum is dedicated to miriam. we are a small museum his small place was a big message their message is length and they move say 3 of them placing these from our ward let the thing begin with me.
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tonight it's a company we all know 2 years after opening her museum eva corps 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. if then if you think they should fail i 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 wife's better i know we've some kind of
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idealistic i be i could raise my liberal ideals forgiveness i could somehow help out fields of want. but if i help heal one single person. i am already have. all of the records that i have seen you if somebody doesn't quite fit the helps in 15 accept them for they are. you might help somebody who desperately need to. forgive your worst enemy it morph into your soul and it will 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 and
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she said forgive not for that but 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 and. 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 love so much. it kicked off a movement the reconstruction of eva's museum put her back in the national spotlight but this time the public was far more sympathetic. gave a. shit by the cost of the structure of her kids' museum and terrible proud to rebuilt her sacrifice the medical husband might ensures that those who may be
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exposed that big tolerance is going to get through 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 evil called. she's increased cautiousness the whole cost she was there as a vehicle so-called but roses in the presence of us 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
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a magnificent contribution to life. 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's show a foundation memorialized her with an interactive hologram. do you think another holocaust is possible. over 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. she knows she has all of us. she knows she has. 1000 of them about thousands of people who appreciate. the struggle she has been through and what she does. for them and others. in
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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 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 see it every day. doesn't matter what she's going through. she needs this new thing and 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
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but to pay respect to teach to not let the world forget. but the pain remained israel let myself feel. i remember how the words and the bench were only for the not. but things changed in her later years it was at auschwitz that even moses core felt most alive. when i come back here i don't come back yes indeed. i come back as a victorious sort of like. we had a dream oh. that's what she offers. and that's
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what the world needs. that's kind of the the beauty of a meter it really try to beat the war we celebrate the fight the you know a survivor gets given a war the know he was being given was wonderful and so she should what we have nicely done is turned around and said people like never thank you. thank you in spite of the fire that you had everything taken from you everything destroyed 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 but thirst doubt 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. i would just say good work. good work for you for you are succeeding. that. i would say mom.
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i'm very proud of you you may think. of that worn out. again rather i put my my my back the different. worlds and she lives and she fires and she loves and she's mighty and she is there. for her. in so many people's lives. she led. she lives. i don't know the story you all so guiding likely my life i send them elsewhere it's a would you be proud of me. i hope so i hope they're mine message that comes directly from you if you mean please
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drama they all believe because it's all about who they know i'm rachel join me for me to get to the gulf coast play. this is news live from her lead it is day one of britain's future outside of the european union after night time celebrations among those who voted to leave the country. on the morning after about the hardest part of. also coming up more and more countries have acted with their nationals from china
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