The choice : escape your past and embrace the possible /
Eger, Edith,
The choice : escape your past and embrace the possible / Edith Eger. - London : Rider Books, 2017. - 192 pages ; 22 cm
Includes index.
Includes forward by Philip Zimbardo.
Part 1: Prison. 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 2: Escape. My liberator, my assailant--In through a window--Next year in Jerusalem--Flight. Part 3: Freedom. Immigration day--Greener--You were there?--From one survivor to another--What life expected--The choice--Then Hitler won--Goebbels's bed--Leave a stone. Part 4: Healing. The dance of freedom--The girl without hands--Somehow the waters part--Liberation day.
In 1944, 16-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimaginable experiences, including being made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele. Over the coming months, Edith's bravery helped her sister to survive, and led to her bunkmates rescuing her during a death march. When their camp was finally liberated, Edith was pulled from a pile of bodies, barely alive. In 'The Choice', Dr Edith Eger shares her experience of the Holocaust and the remarkable stories of those she has helped ever since.
9781846045110 (pbk.) : £12.99 9781846045103 1846045118 9781846045110 184604510X
Eger, Edith.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Psychic trauma.
Suffering.
Suffering.
Psychic trauma.
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives
Psychology.
Psychology
Popular psychology
Memoirs
True stories of heroism, endurance & survival
Genocide & ethnic cleansing
The Holocaust
Second World War
Popular philosophy
War crimes
Biography: general
Autobiographies.
BF175.5.P75
155.93 EGE
The choice : escape your past and embrace the possible / Edith Eger. - London : Rider Books, 2017. - 192 pages ; 22 cm
Includes index.
Includes forward by Philip Zimbardo.
Part 1: Prison. 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 2: Escape. My liberator, my assailant--In through a window--Next year in Jerusalem--Flight. Part 3: Freedom. Immigration day--Greener--You were there?--From one survivor to another--What life expected--The choice--Then Hitler won--Goebbels's bed--Leave a stone. Part 4: Healing. The dance of freedom--The girl without hands--Somehow the waters part--Liberation day.
In 1944, 16-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimaginable experiences, including being made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele. Over the coming months, Edith's bravery helped her sister to survive, and led to her bunkmates rescuing her during a death march. When their camp was finally liberated, Edith was pulled from a pile of bodies, barely alive. In 'The Choice', Dr Edith Eger shares her experience of the Holocaust and the remarkable stories of those she has helped ever since.
9781846045110 (pbk.) : £12.99 9781846045103 1846045118 9781846045110 184604510X
Eger, Edith.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Psychic trauma.
Suffering.
Suffering.
Psychic trauma.
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives
Psychology.
Psychology
Popular psychology
Memoirs
True stories of heroism, endurance & survival
Genocide & ethnic cleansing
The Holocaust
Second World War
Popular philosophy
War crimes
Biography: general
Autobiographies.
BF175.5.P75
155.93 EGE