Eva Kor Mural

Overview

Holocaust survivor and forgiveness advocate Eva Mozes Kor is immortalized with a mural on the side of the 500 Festival Building. The international figure died in 2019 at the age of 85.

The 53-foot-tall portrait shows Kor smiling and flashing a peace sign, with her signature message, “hope, healing, and forgiveness” at her side.

Kor was born to a Jewish family in northern Transylvania, which later fell under German military occupation in World War II. Kor and her family were deported to Auschwitz in 1944. Her mother, father and two older sisters were killed in a gas chamber, but Eva and her twin sister, Miriam were chosen as subjects for experimentation by the Nazi “Angel of Death” Dr. Josef Mengele. Mengele tortured the twins for months, injecting them with mixtures of germs.

Decades later, Kor found a way to forgive him, and spent the rest of her life encouraging others to do the same.