Holocaust survivor Eva Moses Kor calls for forgiveness during MTSU lecture
A Holocaust survivor told an audience at MTSU that she found the Oct. 27 massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue “very, very eye-opening.” Eva Moses Kor, who, along with her identical twin sister Miriam, was a victim of grotesque scientific experiments in the notorious Auschwitz death camp during World War II, spoke Tuesday, Oct. 30, in the Student Union Ballroom to an audience that included both college students and students from local K-12 schools. Kor, who said she had visited Auschwitz just a week earlier, said “crazy people are everywhere,” but we have the power to make a difference. “I think only as citizens we have to use our own minds rather than listen to the rhetoric of the politicians’ political agenda,” Kor said. The 83-year-old native Romanian and naturalized American citizen spoke on a day when President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were scheduled to travel to Pittsburgh following the Saturday slaughter of 11 people and the wounding of six others at the Tree of Life synagogue. A suspect who had posted anti-Semitic threats online, Robert Bowers, is in police custody.
A Holocaust survivor told an audience at MTSU that she found the Oct. 27 massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue “very, very eye-opening.” Eva Moses Kor, who, along with her identical twin sister Miriam, was a victim of grotesque scientific experiments in the notorious Auschwitz death camp during World War II, spoke Tuesday, Oct. 30, in the Student Union Ballroom to an audience that included both college students and students from local K-12 schools. Kor, who said she had visited Auschwitz just a week earlier, said “crazy people are everywhere,” but we have the power to make a difference. “I think only as citizens we have to use our own minds rather than listen to the rhetoric of the politicians’ political agenda,” Kor said. The 83-year-old native Romanian and naturalized American citizen spoke on a day when President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were scheduled to travel to Pittsburgh following the Saturday slaughter of 11 people and the wounding of six others at the Tree of Life synagogue. A suspect who had posted anti-Semitic threats online, Robert Bowers, is in police custody.