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Chestnut Hill College to Co-Host Auschwitz Survivor

Chestnut Hill College to Co-Host Auschwitz Survivor

Eva Kor, Marie Conn

February 1, 2016
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

CONTACT: Cristina Diaz
Media and Community Relations Manager
215.753.3684

 

Chestnut Hill College and NewChurch Live will co-host a presentation by Auschwitz survivor, Eva Kor, at the Mitchell Performing Arts Center Auditorium in Bryn Athyn on February 15 at 7 p.m.

Marie Conn, Ph.D., professor of religious studies at CHC, Chris Dunn ’13, director of Sunroom Spiritual Growth Groups, and Chuck Blair, Pastor of NewChurch Live based in Bryn Athyn, are the event’s coordinators.

Eva Kor and her twin sister, Miriam, were the only two members of their family to survive the horror that was Auschwitz. Although the two experienced pain and fear during the experiments performed on twins by the notorious Dr. Josef Mengele, Kor ultimately came to forgive her tormenters and now spreads her story of how forgiveness provided her with emotional liberation.

She says that in order to move forward with her life, she had to practice forgiveness, and that was the only thing that allowed her to move away from victimhood.

“Eva has taught me that in practicing forgiveness, you set a prisoner free only to realize that the prisoner was you,” says Dunn. “Eva works to transform peoples’ ideas of forgiveness. We felt that her message would benefit both institutions as well as so many others.”

The presentation will be streamed live to participants around the world. Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/716615038440431/ for more information or contact Chris Dunn at 203-988-0896 or chris.dunn@sunroomgroups.org or Marie Conn, Ph.D., at 215-248-7044 or mconn@chc.edu.

 

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