Extra Credit

Devon Bennett

Mr. Neuburger

English 102-118

27 February 2013

Synopsis

“Forgiving Dr. Mengele”

The movie Forgiving Dr. Mengele is about a woman who was a biological twin and was put in a concentration camp during World War II.  She and her sister were put through some of the most unbelievable tests by the Third Reich’s medical doctors.  These doctors were using Jews to learn things on the body because they felt as though they weren’t important in life.  Eva Moses Kor and her sister Miriam were selected for genetic testing by Dr. Josef Mengele.  These tests would alter these two girls lives forever and ended up taking the life of Miriam at an early age do to the side effects of the testing. 

The movie shows how Eva Moses Kor who is into real-estate in Indiana traveled back to Germany to try and find the medical files of Dr. Mengele.  When she returned she found that the former doctor of the former concentration camp in Poland, Auschwitz, was feeling very guilty against the crimes against humanity and felt as though they were becoming more and more unbearable. 

So even with knowing all that had gone on and how many people he had hurt including her sister Miriam, Eva Moses Kor forgave Dr. Mengele.  This was the first of is kind and is a huge deal in the Jewish world because she spoke for the Jews.