2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
Eva Kor, one of the prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where Joseph Mengele conducted his medical experiments, gave her answer to this question. Her story will make you look at your own problems differently.
We are all selfish. We consider our problems to be the most important and often insurmountable. Perhaps this is in our DNA, and I do not know of a universal solution to this problem. More precisely, I did not know. Recently I came across a story - a prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp. She was in the camp with her twin sister and, because of this, attracted the attention of the doctor. How She Could Survive and Go Through Hell, Eva Cor
When I was 10 years old, my twin sister and I ended up in Auschwitz, where Josef Mengele conducted experiments on prisoners, including me. I was injected with a fatal infection, and a few days later Mengele came to my barrack. He never looked or even looked at me. He opened the case history and said with a laugh:
It's a shame she's so young. She only has two weeks to live.
At this time, the only thing I could understand was that I was very ill. But I refused to die. I vowed to myself to prove that Mengele was wrong, that I would survive and see Miriam (twin sister. - Ed.).
For the next two weeks, I was between life and death. I have only one memory when I was crawling on the floor of the barrack because I could no longer walk. There was a water tap on the other side of the barracks, and my only goal was to get to it. After a few weeks, the fever subsided and I felt better. It took another three weeks for all the symptoms to go away and I was able to live a normal life and see Miriam again. This event became my main source of strength for the rest of my life.
When my son had cancer, I couldn't get him to start fighting for his life. Nobody could do it for him. I kept repeating the story of my escape from Auschwitz over and over until he got angry and yelled at me. I told him:
The doctors in the concentration camp wanted me dead, but I told myself that I would live. Can you do the same?
He got angry and hung up.
But a few days later he called back and said that he understood everything:
This is my Auschwitz and this is my struggle that I must go through.
My son is alive now. That I was able to survive such events proves that I can survive anything.
When we overcome challenges and obstacles, we become stronger. I like to inspire people. They see what I have gone through and understand that they too can solve their problems. Sharing your stories to help others is very, very good.
If a person dying of cancer decides that he does not want to live anymore, no one can help him.
If you could be inspired by my or any other story - go for it. Make a promise to yourself and keep it. And don't blame yourself if you go astray - we all face this. Just try to get back.
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