Auschwitz survivor Eva Kor on why she hugged former Nazi in court
Holocaust survivor Eva Kor is pictured hugging the former Nazi Oskar Groning as he stands in the dock accused of complicity to murder 300,000 people. She had travelled to Lunenburg in Germany from the United States to testify against him and tell the court how she and her twin sister had been experimented on by Josef Mengele when they were in Auschwitz. "I am not a poor person, I am a victorious human being, who has been able to rise above the pain, forgive the Nazis, not because they deserve it but because I deserve it..."
First broadcast on Today, 24 April 2015.
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