Eva & Miriam Mozes (Romania, 1934)

Eva Mozes Kor (1934-2019) was a Holocaust child survivor.

KEYWORDS : <Auschwitz> <Mengele>

Biography

Eva Mozes was born in Romania in 1934. In 1944 the family was transported to Auschwitz. Eva and her twin sister Miriam, were the only members of the family to survive, as they were selected for medical experiments by Josef Mengele.

Their suffering lasts 10 months. Eva and Miriam survived until the camp was liberated on January 27, 1945.

A famous picture shows them together with other children at Birkenau, when the camp was evacuated one month after liberation. Among those pictured are Tomasz Szwarz; Alicja Gruenbaum; Solomon Rozalin; Gita Sztrauss; Wiera Sadler; Marta Wiess; Boro Eksztein; Josef Rozenwaser; Rafael Szlezinger; Gabriel Nejman; Adek Apfelbaum; Hillik (later Harold) Apfelbaum; Mark Berkowitz (a twin); Pesa Balter; Rut Muszkies (later Webber); Miriam Friedman; and twins Miriam Mozes and Eva Mozes wearing knitted hats.

After the war Eva and Miriam went back to Romania with an aunt, who also had survived. In 1950, at age 16, the twins received permission to leave Romania and immigrated to Israel, arriving in the port city of Haifa. Miriam died in 1993, Eva in 2019.

Bibliography

• Echoes from Auschwitz: Dr. Mengele's Twins: The Story of Eva and Miriam Mozes (1995) with Mary Wright — Template:ISBN
• Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz (2009) with Lisa Rojany Buccieri — Template:ISBN
• Little Eva & Miriam in First Grade (1994) Eva Mozes Kor - Template:Oclc