Sharing Holocaust stories is the best way to keep them alive.
Alex Kor, who wrote the memoir, “A Blessing, Not a Burden: My Parents’ Remarkable Holocaust Story and My Fight to Keep Their Legacy Alive,” is coming to South Florida on Sept. 16-18 to share his.
Kor’s father, Mickey, survived a Latvian ghetto before being deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp. He was able to escape the camp and eventually immigrate to America.
His mother, Eva, ended up in Auschwitz. Due to her being a twin, she was sent to Dr. Josef Mengele, who is known for the inhumane experiments he performed. Miraculously, she survived and would later become known for forgiving the Nazis.
The antisemitism did not end with them. As a child raised in Indiana, Kor said he was bullied and attacked for being Jewish.
His book (Pediment Publishing, 2024), which he co-wrote with Graham Honaker, tells all three of their stories and Kor will be discussing it at different locations this month. All events are free, but some require advance registration.
- noon Sept. 16 at Mid-Century Museum & Cultural Center, 84 SE Fourth Ave., Deerfield Beach; deerfieldbeachhistoricalsociety.com
- 7 p.m. Sept. 16 at Temple Sinai, 2475 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach; templesinaipbc.org
- 3 p.m. Sept. 17 at Florida International University, Earlene and Albert Dotson Pavilion (MARC Building, second floor), 11200 SW Eighth St., Miami; calendar.fiu.edu
- 10 a.m. Sept. 18 at David Posnack Jewish Community Center, 5850 S. Pine Island Road, Davie; dpjcc.org/events
“With [this level] of antisemitism that we have not experienced in 80 years, these stories need to be told, retold and discussed throughout the world,” Kor, who resides in Indiana, recently told the Florida Jewish Journal. “Having traveled to South Florida for the last 40 years and knowing the demographics of the region, it is even more critical in South Florida that all generations are exposed to the horrific past to protect our future.”