Holocaust exhibit, documentary at DePauw in March

Friday, February 21, 2020
Two upcoming events at DePauw University will honor the legacies of Holocaust victim Anne Frank (left) and survivor Eva Kor, shown here with DePauw President Mark McCoy.
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Two events intended to educate about the Holocaust are headed to DePauw University next month.

A traveling photographic exhibit from the Anne Frank House will be displayed March 1-19 at the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics. An opening ceremony is scheduled for 3-5 p.m. March 1.

A screening of “Eva: A-7063,” a documentary about Eva Mozes Kor, a Holocaust survivor who started CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Terre Haute, is set for 7 p.m. March 10 in Thompson Recital Hall in the Green Center for the Performing Arts. Ted Green, the documentary’s director, will introduce the film and describe how it was made, and Alex Kor, a Central Indiana podiatrist and Eva Kor’s son, will talk after the screening about his mother.

The photographic exhibit, called “Let Me Be Myself: The Life Story of Anne Frank,” depicts Frank’s life and puts it in the context of Adolph Hitler’s rise to power. Frank died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 when she was 15.

Nazis wrested Kor and her twin sister Miriam from their home in Romania and delivered them to Auschwitz concentration camp, where they were subjected to experiments by Josef Mengele.

In 1995, in what she considered to be an act of self-healing, self-liberation and self-empowerment, Kor publicly forgave the Nazis, saying they should no longer have power over her life. She opened CANDLES, the only museum in the world dedicated to the memory of twins and survivors of medical experimentation.

Kor, who was awarded an honorary degree by DePauw in 2018, died last summer during a trip to Auschwitz.

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  • What a neat event for the community thank you DePauw

    -- Posted by taylortwp on Mon, Feb 24, 2020, at 7:42 AM
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