Forgiving Dr. Mengele

The politics of forgiveness cast a heavy shadow over Bob Hercules and Cheri Pugh's documentary about Romanian-born Eva Mozes Kor, who lost her parents and older sisters in Auschwitz and who, along with her twin sister, Miriam, endured 10 months of Dr. Josef Mengele's notorious medical experiments. Forty years later, Kor sent shockwaves through the community when she publicly forgave her Nazi persecutors. Liberated in 1945 by Soviet troops, the sisters forged postwar lives, Miriam in Israel and Eva in Terre Haute, Indiana, with her husband, Michael. Small, sturdy and resolutely practical, Eva raised two children, got her Realtor's license and started her own firm when...