She raised a family, studied and practiced psychology, always refusing to speak about her experiences during the war. Edie spent decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor's guilt, determined to stay silent and hide from the past. When the American troops liberated the camps in 1945 they found Edie barely alive in a pile of corpses. Edie and her sister survived multiple death camps and the Death March. He rewarded her with a loaf of bread that she shared with her fellow prisoners-an act of generosity that would later save her life. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement-and her survival. Hours after her parents were killed, the 'Angel of Death,' Nazi officer Dr. At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger, a trained ballet dancer and gymnast, was sent to Auschwitz. Edith Eger-one of the few remaining Holocaust survivors-tells her unforgettable story in this moving testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of choice in our lives. |a "Internationally acclaimed psychologist Dr. The dance of freedom The girl without hands Somehow the waters part Liberation day. Immigration day Greener You were there? From one survivor to another What lifeexpected The choice Then Hitler won Goebbels's bed Leave a stone - Part IV: Healing. My liberator, my assailant In through a window Next year in Jerusalem Flight - Part III: Freedom. Introduction: I had my secret, and my secret had me The four questions What you put in your mind Dancing in hell A cartwheel The stairs of death To choose a blade of grass - Part II: Escape. |a Foreword / Philip Zimbardo, PhD - Part I: Prison. Edith Eva Eger, with Esmé Schwall Weigand. |a The choice : |b embrace the possible / |c Dr. A wise, compassionate, life-changing book, The Choice will provide hope and comfort to generations of readers."-Jacket.
She explores how we can be imprisoned in our own minds and shows us how to find the key to freedom.
Eger weaves her remarkable personal account of surviving the Holocaust and overcoming its ghosts of anger, shame, and guilt with the moving stories of those she has helped heal.
She demonstrates, in her life and professional practice, how freedom from trauma, grief, and fear becomes possible once we confront our suffering and make the choice to heal. Today, at ninety yearsold, Edie is a renowned psychologist and speaker who specializes in treating patients suffering from traumatic stress disorders. Thirty-five years after the war ended Edie returned to Auschwitz and was finally able to fully heal and forgive the one person she'd been unable to forgive for years.
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