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The choice : escape your past and embrace the possible / Edith Eger.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Rider 2017Description: 192 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781846045110 (pbk.) :
  • 9781846045103
  • 1846045118
  • 9781846045110
  • 184604510X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 155.93 EGE 23
LOC classification:
  • BF175.5.P75
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 155.93 EGE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 219791
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 155.93 EGE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 219790

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.

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