My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
Friday, October 4, 2013
Holocaust Survivor Shares Horrific Stories-- Part 1
From the April 11-17, 2013, Lake County (Ill) Journal by Yadira Sanchez Olson.
Eva Kor, 79, spoke about her experiences April 4th at Carmel High School in Mundelein, Illinois. She is the founder of CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Indiana and travels the world speaking about her story in concentration camps and the time she and her twin sister, Miriam Mozes, were taken to the death camp where Josef Mengele held and experimented on 3,000 Jewish twins.
"Anger is the seed of war. Forgiveness is a seed of peace."
It was dawn of an early spring day she said in her thick Romanian accent. That was the day in 1944 that a group of Nazis stopped her parents' car and pulled her apart from her father, mother, two older sisters and took her and Miriam to the Auschwitz death camp. They were 10 years old.
--GreGen
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