If you click here you will get to The Guardian’s obituary for the remarkable Eva Kor. She was the victim of Joseph Mengele at Auschwitz, who became a forgiveness advocate, deadicting her life to Holocaust awareness. She testified in 2015 trial of SS officer Oskar Groening. Below she explains the importance of forgiveness, and in the video, discusses her experiences in the camp.
For us historians, her passing raises the question of how we address Holocaust denial when it finally passes from living memory.
“Forgive your worst enemies,” Kor said in a video recording of her last visit to the Auschwitz Museum. “The moment I forgave the Nazis, I felt free from Auschwitz and from all the tragedy that had occurred to me,” she added.
