TY - BOOK AU - Eger,Edith AU - Weigand,Esme Schwall TI - The choice: escape your past and embrace the possible SN - 9781846045110 (pbk.) : AV - BF175.5.P75 U1 - 155.93 EGE 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Rider KW - Eger, Edith. KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Personal narratives KW - Post-traumatic stress disorder KW - Psychic trauma KW - Suffering KW - Psychology KW - ukslc KW - thema KW - Popular psychology KW - Memoirs KW - True stories of heroism, endurance & survival KW - Genocide & ethnic cleansing KW - The Holocaust KW - Second World War KW - Popular philosophy KW - War crimes KW - Biography: general KW - Autobiographies KW - lcgft N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/DECRead?standardNoType=1&standardNo=184604510X&sessionid=0&srcdbname=worldcat&key=dceb08b1bfb4180e2fe0279fa9c9b7782d347c7af8e1cf85b9eac19957050c94&ectype=MOREINFO ER -