Holocaust Survivor Eva Kor Died July 4, 2019

[Cor_ad_Cor]

May she rest in peace. She passed doing what she loved, leading an educational tour of Auschwitz. This documentary was recently released about her life and mission, and while not Catholic, she was the embodiment of living saintliness and the very model of forgiveness. Her story needs to be shared far and wide.

Eva A-7063 | PBS

Explore the extraordinary life of Eva Mozes Kor and experience the power of forgiveness.

www.pbs.org

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Eternal rest grant unto Eva, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her.
May she rest in peace.
May her soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Amen.

I was moved by the documentary about her, and annoyed by the end where they badgered her about her stance on Palestine because they couldn’t handle that she forgave her Nazi tormentors. After what she’d been through I could understand how she felt about Israel and Palestine.

I can also understand why maybe other Jewish people don’t want to forgive; each must make their own choice and people handle things differently. If someone else wishes to forgive, however, then it’s not the non-forgiving person’s place to complain or interfere.

For all these reasons I would not really call her “embodiment of living saintliness”. I’m not even sure what that is; some of the people on the fast track to canonization had some very human faults. But she was an admirable person and did a lot to educate people about the Holocaust.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

This was apparently her last tweet. Priceless. She reminds me of my mom who loved her McD’s dollar hamburger right up to the end, as long as they didn’t put too many onions on it.

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[Beryllos]

Eva Kor had a lot of love in her heart. May she rest in peace in the glorious presence of God.

 

[meltzerboy2]

It is the Jewish custom that only those who were tormented by the Nazis in the camps have the right to forgive their tormenters (or not). By contrast, those who were not physically there and did not experience the torture, do not have the right to either forgive or not forgive. The fact Eva Kor has forgiven her tormenters is surely admirable, and, as you say, no one of us who did not experience the horrors that she did has any right to judge her one way or another.

May her soul rest in peace and may her family be comforted with the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

It is the Jewish custom that only those who were tormented by the Nazis in the camps have the right to forgive their tormenters (or not). By contrast, those who were not physically there and did not experience the torture, do not have the right to either forgive or not forgive.

I think that’s perhaps a common-sense custom for everyone. Forgiveness or not would necessarily have to come from the wronged person. It would make no sense coming from someone who had not been wronged. Catholics do not go around forgiving others who have not wronged them.

 

[meltzerboy2]

In the case of the Nazis, for example, some Jews may say I forgive them or, more likely, I cannot forgive them for what they did to the Jewish people as well as other people who were not Jewish. However, these Jews were not directly affected by the Nazis; therefore, they do not really have the right to forgive or not to forgive even if they were indirectly wronged. Those who were there are the only ones who have that right.