Holocaust Survivor to Speak Sept. 21 at Inver Hills Community College

Holocaust survivor Eva Mozes Kor—who as a child was subjected to human experimentation at Auschwitz concentration camp—is scheduled to speak Friday, Sept. 21, at .

Kor's presentation, titled "My Journey from Auschwitz to Forgiveness," will be held from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Theater on the Inver Hills campus.

The event is free and open to the public.

A native of Romania, Kor is founder and executive director of CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Terre Haute, Ind.

CANDLES is dedicated to the "Mengele Twins" who, like Kor, survived the genetic experimentation of Dr. Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death" or "White Angel" because of his cold demeanor and cruel behavior.

Approximately 3,000 children were subjected to Mengele's experiments between the fall of 1943 and January 1945.

Through her work with the museum, Kor has located 122 living Mengele Twins.

Kor's presentation was made possible thanks to a relationship with Inver Hills sociology and human services instructor Vicky Knickerbocker.

Knickerbocker is one of 12 Holocaust educators in the nation chosen by CANDLES to receive an $1,800 teacher's scholarship to travel with Kor to Poland in July 2012.

"This was an incredible learning experience which greatly broadened my knowledge of Eva's experiences," Knickerbocker said. "It will help me better authenticate the life lessons that college students can learn from studying about the Holocaust."

Inver Hills offers a 3-credit Humanities course titled Holocaust through Multiple Lenses, which Knickerbocker has taught for the past four years.

Following her travels with Kor, she said she expects to enrich her curriculum by incorporating the recordings, personal narratives and photographs she and other educators produced while touring at Auschwitz.