We are pleased that Eva Mozes Kor has accepted our invitation to engage the MBA students in the Transformational Leadership course on October 27, 2015. The Transformational Leadership course focuses on developing 11 core dimensions of leadership character and their associated elements. Every one of the dimensions is a virtue that can become a vice in excess or deficiency. While Drive and Courage are wonderful character strengths of a leader, they need to be accompanied by strength in Humanity and Humility as well, for example. The character dimension of Humanity is comprised of being considerate, empathetic, compassionate, magnanimous and forgiving. Rarely, do we hear about forgiveness as a strength, and often times it is viewed as a weakness. Eva Kor's experience as a survivor of the Holocaust and forgiveness advocate helps us understand why it is so critical.
When Eva was ten years hold, she and her twin sister Miriam, along with her parents and two older sisters were taken by cattle car to the Auschwitz death camp. Upon arrival Eva and Miriam were taken and it was the last time they would ever see their family. "As part of a group of children used as human guinea pigs in genetic experiments under the direction of Dr. Josef Mengele. Approximately 1500 sets of twins—3000 children—were abused, and most died as a result of these experiments. Eva herself became deathly ill, but through sheer determination, she stayed alive and helped Miriam survive. Approximately 200 children were found alive by the Soviet Army at the liberation of the camp on January 27, 1945. The majority of the children were Mengele twins. Eva and Miriam Mozes were among them." Eva will describe the importance of forgiveness and how she was able to develop it under the most trying of circumstances.
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