Eva Mozes, a Romanian-born Auschwitz survivor, has found the strength to forgive her tormentors and symbolically adopted the camp commander’s grandson, reports local Digi24.

Mozes survived the Holocaust and, 70 years later, she adopted the grandson of Rudolf Hoss, a notorious commander of the Nazi concentration camp, where it is estimated that more than a million people were killed.

The two starting talking after Rainer Hoss, the commander’s grandson, sent Eva Mozes an email in which he asked forgiveness for the crimes ordered by his grandfather.

“I’m 49, father of four and grandfather of two, I fight against racism and anti-Semitism in Europe and now in America too,” said Rainer Hoss, according to Digi24.

Romanian-born Eva Mozes was 10 when she was captured by the Nazis, together with her twin sister and her parents, and was sent to Auschwitz. There, they’ve been the subject of savage medical experiments carried out by Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele.

At that time, the camp was led by Rudolf Hoss, who always denied the accusations. Despite all experiments, Eva and her sister survived the Nazi camp and were saved by the Soviet army in 1945.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com

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