A HOLOCAUST survivor who called for forgiveness of the Nazis who tortured her in twisted experiments at Auschwitz has died aged 85.
Eva Mozes Kor died at a hotel in Krakow, Poland, during one of her annual trips back to the death camp where her whole family was murdered apart from her and twin sister Miriam.
Eva, born in Romania, was transported to Auschwitz in 1944 where she and Miriam were brutally tortured by the terrifying Nazi doctor Josef Mengele – known as the "Angel of Death".
Eva said in 2001: "Three times a week we went to the blood lab. There we were injected with germs and chemicals and they took a lot of blood from us."
She got a fever so bad she was not expected to live, but recovered and was saved when the camp was liberated in 1945.
After the war the sisters, then aged 11, went to Israel. Eva later married an American and moved to Indiana in the US where she helped set up a Holocaust museum.
FAMOUS FOR FORGIVENESS
In 1985, the Candles Holocaust Museum and Education Centre opened with a mission to educate people on the horrors of the Holocaust.
She spent the rest of her life giving talks on the horrors of the Nazi regime and led regular tours back to Auschwitz.
She also said publicly she forgave many of the perpetrators of the Holocaust.
In 2015 she hugged Oskar Groening, 94 – dubbed the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz – in court before he was found guilty of facilitating the mass murder of 3,000 people.
Her last tweet, sent on July 3, expressed her delight at finding a McDonald's near the concentration camp.
She wrote: "Can you believe that today I can get chicken McNuggets near Auschwitz? That would have been wonderful 75 years ago."
She had reportedly been suffering from ill health this year, including heart and respiratory problems.
Her son Alex Kor said: "My mom would be mad at me for crying.
"She would also tell other people not to cry to try and follow in her footsteps to try to make all wrongs right and make the world a better place.
"That's her legacy. That's her gift."
Her sister Miriam died in 1993.
WHO WAS JOSEF MENGELE?
Josef Mengele was a Nazi scientist famous for his sickening experiments on thousands of Jews at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
He was responsible for sending thousands of people not strong enough to work to die in the camp's gas chambers.
The terrifying physician was obsessed with twins and would regularly experiment on children during his time at the camp.
It is said that he investigated and conducted experiments on twins in order to complete Adolf Hitler's dream of creating a pure Aryan race.
One of his experiments was to infect one twin with a fatal disease, then kill the other to compare the bodies.
It is reported that over 1500 sets of twins were subjected to experiments from the terrifying doctor.
Mengele drowned in 1979 while swimming off the Brazilian coast and was buried under a false name.
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