Eva Mozes Kor: A Holocaust Survivor

When the doors to our cattle car opened, I heard SS soldiers yelling, “Schnell! Schnell!” and ordering everybody out. My mother grabbed Miriam and me by the hand. She was always trying to protect us because we were the youngest. Everything was moving very fast, and as I looked around, I noticed my father and my two older sisters were gone…
Once the SS guard knew we were twins, Miriam and I were taken away from our mother, without any warning or explanation. Our screams fell on deaf ears. I remember looking back and seeing my mother's arms stretched out in despair as we were led away by a soldier. That was the last time I saw her (Savage). Eva Mozes Kor is a living survivor of experiments by Nazi doctors such as Josef Mengele. During World War II, Nazi doctors conducted as many as 30 different types of experiments on concentration-camp inmates. They performed these studies without the consent of …show more content…
Her family was the only Jewish family in the village. When they reached the age of six, their town was occupied with a Hungarian Nazi armed guard. After four long years of stressful occupation her family and her was sent to a regional ghetto in Simleu, Silvaniei. In only a few short weeks the whole family was sent to Auschwitz death camp, by a cattle car (“About the Holocaust”). Without food or water for 70 hours, Eva and her family emerged at the selection platform at Aushwitz. Eva soon realized that her father and her two older sisters were gone. She never saw them again. By force the girls were taken from their mother, whom they also never saw again. Eva and Miriam became part of a group of children that were used as human guinea pigs in -genetic experiments. Approximately, 1500 sets of twins-3000 children- were abused and most died due to the experiments. Eva became deathly ill, but through sheer determination, she stayed alive and helped her twin sister Miriam do the same (Eva