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RFE/RL: Romanian-born Holocaust survivor, activist Eva Kor dies at age 85

Published July 5, 2019 at 11:33 am

Auschwitz survivor and plaintiff Eva Kor attends the trial of former Nazi death camp officer Oskar Groening on April 21, 2015 in Lueneburg, northern Germany. The 93-year-old man dubbed the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz" is being tried on "accessory to murder" charges in 300,000 cases of deported Hungarian Jews who were sent to the gas chambers, and faces up to 15 years jail.

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Romanian-born Holocaust survivor Eva Kor, who advocated for forgiveness even for those who carried out the World War II-era atrocities, has died at age 85, her son says.

Kor was in Krakow, Poland, on a trip representing the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center that she had founded in Terre Haute, Indiana, when she died on July 4.