Kor lecture essay

Cylene Wallace Mr. Neuburger ENG 101-101 27 February 2013 Lecture Summary Eva Moses Kor The lecture given by Ms. Kor was both touching and informative. It began with her and her family arriving at Auschwitz death camp. Upon exiting the cattle car they had been riding in for over three days with no food and water, she was now standing on the selection platform. It was the last place she saw her parents and two older sisters. Within thirty minutes her entire world changed forever. She and her twin sister Miriam were then taken to some sort of barracks; the living conditions were extremely bad. There was no water and rats roamed the floors at night. She spoke of the first time she saw corpses of children laying on the floor. Very little food was provided to the prisoners. Most days they were taken to the experiment station, where they sat naked and were injected with numerous drugs, their bodies measured and studied. She became very ill after one of the injections, Dr. Mengele told her she would die but somehow with her determination to live she pulled through. She talked about seeing an airplane with an American flag fly over, making her feel hopeful. Upon liberation there were only two hundred children found alive of the nearly fifteen hundred sets of Mengele twins. The lecture ended with what was called the three life lessons. Never give up on your dreams, do not be prejudice, and forgive someone. For her forgiveness is the key to healing.