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Thursday, 03 January 2008
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Tonight at 8:30pm on SBS Eva Kor, a survivor and patient of the Auchwitz 'doctor' Mengele's cruel experiments demonstrates the power of forgiveness by revealing her decision to forgive her tormentors.
Forgiving Dr Mengele
Sydney Morning Herald, Doug Anderson, January 2, 2008
A former "patient" of the infamous Auschwitz doctor shocks Holocaust survivors when she decides to forgive her tormentor.
Type: Documentary
Channel: SBS
Date: Wednesday January 2
Time: 8:30 PM
Lies written in ink can never obliterate truths written in blood. But, says the Holocaust survivor Eva Kor, if you forgive your worst enemy it will heal your soul and set you free.
She speaks from an unenviable experience that gives her credence in such matters. When Eva was a kid of 10, her family was sent to Auschwitz by Hitler's loons. Mum and dad were "processed" while Eva and her twin sister came to the attention of the demented Dr Josef Mengele, whose quest for medical knowledge overrode every ethical consideration and fundamental respect for life.
Like sadistic gunfighters, Mengele and his minions blazed away with syringes, injecting Eva and Miriam with all manner of toxic compounds just to see what would happen. The sisters survived, but in 1993, when Miriam died,
Eva felt compelled to retrace the lines of fate and found herself in contact with Dr Hans Munch, an SS doctor who has done what he could to help the Jewish guinea pigs and who, in the postwar years had sunk into deep depression and guilt.
She decided to forgive him and, consequently, Mengele himself. Other survivors and the families of many who perished questioned her right to morally pardon the unpardonable.
Continue reading at sydney morning herald
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