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1. #Sought say. against tormentor. they shot how to#
2. #Sought say. against tormentor. they shot trial#
3. #Sought say. against tormentor. they shot free#

#Sought say. against tormentor. they shot how to#

Wouldn’t it be wonderful for the world if we try to do that with people we didn’t like before?Share this video so we can learn how to deal with old wounds, how to resolve issues with old enemies, and how we can relate – one human being to another.Anger is a seed for war. This video shows one human being reaching out to another – former adversaries meeting as human beings. The neo-Nazis think I might have made it up, but they cannot ignore the point of view of a former Nazi. It also sends a stronger message to the neo-Nazis and all these misguided extremists who want to destroy the world again. That is for the court to decide.Meeting Oskar Groening was just one more opportunity for me to learn something about what happened at Auschwitz and to encourage him to testify, because his testimony corroborates the tragedy of the victims. It does not mean I condone or absolve what was done.

#Sought say. against tormentor. they shot free#

I have already forgiven the Nazis 20 years ago – not because they deserve it, but because I deserve to be free from the burden they have imposed upon me. I am a survivor of medical experiments performed on twin children at Auschwitz, and 70 years later, here I am meeting a Nazi guard from Auschwitz. It's for you to know that you forgive, and you can go on with your life without the burden and pain that the Nazis or anybody else ever imposed on you."

"They can take a piece of paper and a pen and write a letter to someone who hurt them," she says. Kor says that when a victim chooses to forgive, they take the power back from their tormentors. "I had no power over my life up to the time that I discovered that I could forgive, and I still do not understand why people think it's wrong." has nothing to do with the perpetrator, has nothing to do with any religion, it is my act of self-healing, self-liberation and self-empowerment," she says.

She is the founder of the CANDLES (Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors) Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Terre Haute, Ind., and she speaks across the country about her experience and the power of forgiveness. She'd make him travel the country to talk to young neo-Nazis, and tell them what he saw and that the Nazi regime should never come back.įor Kor, forgiveness does not mean that the perpetrators are absolved of their crimes. Josef Mengele.īut if she were the judge, she wouldn't throw Groening in a prison cell. She and her sister Miriam were among the thousands of twins subjected to horrendous experiments by the infamous Dr. Kor says she was "between life and death" and used in brutal medical experiments. I was left orphaned not knowing really what will become of us."

"Within 30 minutes, my whole family was gone. "If there would be hell on Earth, Auschwitz looked to me like that and in some way it was," Kor says. Holocaust survivor Eva Kor flew to Germany to testify about her experience in the camp. Right now in Germany, a 93-year-old former Nazi who served at Auschwitz is on trial.

#Sought say. against tormentor. they shot trial#

She testified at the trial of 93-year-old former Auschwitz guard Oskar Groening.Īround this time 70 years ago, following the liberation of Nazi concentration camps in Europe, the world was coming to grips with the scale of the holocaust, and how to deal with crimes so horrendous, they're almost incomprehensible. Auschwitz survivor Eva Kor sits in a courtroom in Lueneburg, northern Germany, on April 21, 2015.