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Forgiveness helps everyone, and most people would agree.The Holocaust was the worst time for Jews and others whom Hitler considered he got his way. I have 4 articles about forgiving which I will be using. “Oldest Known Holocaust survivor Dies; Pianist was 110,” by Mark Memmott, is a woman named Alice Herz-Sommer, who lived to 110 and got through the Holocaust. Another articles is “It’s For You to Know That You Forgive, Says Holocaust Survivor” by NPR. Eva Kor, Holocaust survivor,forgave the Nazis and Dr. Josef Mengele. The last section is “Surviving The Angel Of Death” by Eva Kor. This is a book of Eva Kor surviving experiments from Dr. Mengele. Dr. Mengele experimented on twins which Eva Kor was. Also it on forgiving what happened to her …show more content…

In the article “Oldest Known Holocaust Survivor Dies,””Mark Memmott says “Despite all that has befallen her, [Holocaust survivor]Alice insists that she has never, ever hated the Nazis, and she never will. Some see in her tolerance and compassion a secular saint who has been blessed with the gift of forgiveness...” (Malcolm Clark and Nick Reed qtd.In Memmot). This quote is saying Alice would not hate them because she has a gift of forgiving and that she forgives the Nazis because it would come back and eat her up and she would not be injured.Likewise,Eva Kor states that “when a victim chooses to forgive, they take power back from their tormentors” (“It’s For You To Know”). Eva is getting stronger because she is getting power from the ones in the wrong. In her book Surviving the Angel of Death, Kor Also said “I discovered once I made the decision was that forgiveness is not so much for the perpetrator, but for vitamin” (132).Eva is saying that if they are forgiving it is for the person who did wrong but it for yourself. Forgiving is a power that everyone has. After forgiving the Angel of Death, Kor said she felt a “burden of pain had been lifted from my shoulder, a pain I had lived for 50 years” (Kor ). When you forgive you are feeling good and healed. Eva is feeling healed after forgiving The Angel of …show more content…

Holocaust Survivor, Simon Wiesenthal says, “Today the world demands that we forgive and forget the heinous crimes committed against us. It urges that we draw a line, and close the account as if nothing had ever happened” (Wiesenthal 97). However, they can forgive whenever they like but they can't never forget what happened to. Simon later second-guessed himself on not forgiving Karl, a Nazi. He had a choice and he picked not to forgive Karl, but he was not sure if that was the right thing to do. Simon had to ask others in the camps if that was the right decision. Wiesenthal was hard on himself weather to forgive Karl. Then he had to go ask other Jews and he even went to talk to his mom. But how do they know now what Wiesenthal feel because he didn't even know himself. Wiesenthal states, “Forgetting is something that time alone takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition and only the sufferer is qualified to make a decision” (Wiesenthal 97-98). On the other hand, how can he not forget something so bad like the Holocaust and forgiving would help him. It would not make him sufferer. Eva Kor forgave, and she probably would never forget what happened to her. She was healed and weight came off her shoulders after she forgive the

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