Where to look for hope in difficult times. Tips from prisoners of KL Auschwitz

His answer to this question gave Eva Kor - one of the inmates of the concentration camp of Auschwitz, where Josef Mengele conducted his medical experiments. Her story will make you look at their own problems in a different way.

All of us are selfish. We believe our most important problem and often insurmountable. Perhaps it's in our DNA, and I know not a universal solution to the problem. Specifically, I do not know. Recently I came across a story Cor Eve - prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp. She was in the camp along with his twin sister, and because of this, drew the attention of doctor Josef Mengele. About how she was able to survive and go through hell, Eva Kor He said on Quora.

We publish a translation of Eva Kor stories.

When I was 10 years old, me and my twin sister came to Auschwitz, where Josef Mengele conducted experiments on prisoners and me included. I have introduced a lethal infection, and a few days later Mengele came to my hut. He never examined and did not even look at me. He opened his medical history and said with a laugh:

It is a pity that she is so young. She left to live for only two weeks.

At this time, the only thing I could understand - I'm very sick. But I refused to die. I vowed to prove that Mengele was not right, that I would survive, and again I see Miriam (twin sister. - Approx. Ed.).

The next two weeks I was between life and death. I have only one memory left when I was crawling on the floor of the barracks because she could no longer walk. On the other side of the barracks was the tap water, and my only goal was to get to it. A few weeks later the heat weakened, I felt better. It took three more weeks to have gone all the symptoms and I was able to live a normal life and see Miriam again. This event has become my main source of strength for a lifetime.

When my son was cancerI could not get it to start a fight for their lives. No one could do it for him. I again and again repeated the story of his rescue from Auschwitz until then, until he got angry and yelled at me. I told him:

Doctors at the camp wanted me dead, but I told myself that I would live. Can you do the same?

He got angry and hung up.

But he called back and said a few days later that I understood everything:

This is my Auschwitz, and this is my fight, that I should go through.

My son is still alive. What I was able to survive such events, it proves that I can survive anything.

When we overcome the challenges and obstacles we become stronger. I like to inspire people. They see through what I went through, and understand that they can solve their problems, too. Share their stories to help others, very, very well.

If a person is dying of cancer, decides he does not want to live any more, no one can help him.

If you could be inspired by my story, or any other - act. Give yourself a promise and do it. And do not blame yourself if you are out of the way - we all face the same problem. Just try to go back.