A couple of weeks ago, I visited the C.A.N.D.L.E.S. Museum. This was the third time I had been there since Eva Mozes Kor, the museum’s founder, passed away. I was able to have a nice tour and take pictures (the previous two times I went, I couldn’t).
Much has changed since I was last there in March 2016. Not only has there been renovation, a memorial to Eva, in the back there is now a room reminiscent of a small movie theater which features an Eva hologram that you can question.
You can feel a change in the museum’s atmosphere. Their fearless leader is gone, but her memory and message lives on. One of the phrases I have picked up at the C.A.N.D.L.E.S. Museum long ago is Tikkun Olam. It means, “repair the world.” The idea is that we must do our part to make the world a better place, with our beliefs, our actions, our love, our forgiveness. We bear a responsibility for what goes on around us. We must take care to not let history repeat itself.
Tikkun Olam – I think that is the best way we can preserve Eva and her memory. And save the world.
Veronica Leigh 