It's For You To Know That You Forgive, Says Holocaust Survivor By Eva Kor

A young girl heads out to town to hang out with her friends; the girl has a great time and heads back home to find her parents murdered. She calls the police and the research for the homicide begins, yet the case runs cold and is closed after years. Then, new research comes up all hope rises and they go deeper and figure out who the parents murderer was. A trial goes on to convict the ‘murderer’ of their crime; the girl sees the murderer and testifies of what she's seen when she came back home. All evidence then leads to the murderer to be guilty. She looks at the murderer in the eyes as the person walks up to her and asks for forgiveness of their actions. The girl doesn’t respond and wonders if she should forget or forgive. Eva Kor in, It’s
There are many different situations to decide of whether a person should forgive or not. From lying to blackmail to murder. In the article, It’s For You to Know That You Forgive, Says Holocaust Survivor, Eva Kor speaks of what happened to her family and her sister and goes up to trial against a former Nazi at the end of the trial the former Nazi hugs and kisses Kor and she manages to forgive him following after the events in an interview she says, “when a victim chooses to forgive, they take the power back from their tormentors”. Forgiving is not giving them power, it's not obliterating someones terrible actions; it's simply a coping mechanism and a way to set a person free in their
When you forgive you take back control from your perpetrators. You are open to understanding the difficulties of one. As well as coming to peace in mind and becoming stronger person. The Nazis’ needed a scapegoat, someone to blame for their loss, in which was the Jews (which is purely incorrect). Most young Germans back then were influenced or foolish not to open their eyes. In Wiesenthal, The Sunflower, he speaks about a Karl, a former Nazi and his story and how he saw a family die. While he is on his deathbed he asks for forgiveness and the only reason he was on his deathbed was because he thought of the family that died in front of him while an explosion happened, Karl says, “in that moment I saw the burning family, the father with the child and behind them the mother… ‘No I cannot shoot at them a second time”. It may have only been because he only saw a closer picture of everything that he apologized. After all this time, he only needed to open his eyes and he did and realized the wrong he