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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Eger, Edith Eva, author.     Subjects     Eger, Edith Eva.     Psychologists -- United States -- Biography.     Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography.     Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Eger, Edith Eva, author.       by title:      The choice : embrace...         MARC Display

The choice : embrace the possible / Dr. Edith Eva Eger, with Esmé Schwall Weigand. by Eger, Edith Eva, author. New York : Scribner, 2018. Subjects Eger, Edith Eva.   Psychologists -- United States -- Biography.   Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography.   Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives. ISBN:  9781501130793 (paperback) 150113079X Description:  xvii, 288 pages ; 22 cm Edition:  First Scribner trade paperback edition. Contents:  Foreword / Philip Zimbardo, PhD -- Part I: Prison. 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. My liberator, my assailant ; In through a window ; Next year in Jerusalem ; Flight -- Part III: 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 IV: Healing. The dance of freedom ; The girl without hands ; Somehow the waters part ; Liberation day. Requests:  0 Summary:  "At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger, a trained ballet dancer and gymnast, was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, the 'Angel of Death, ' Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement--and her survival. 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. Edie and her sister survived multiple death camps and the Death March. When the American troops liberated the camps in 1945 they found Edie barely alive in a pile of corpses. Edie spent decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor's guilt, determined to stay silent and hide from the past ... Today, at ninety years old, Edie is a renowned psychologist and speaker who specializes in treating patients suffering from traumatic stress disorders. She ... 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 explores how we can be imprisoned in our own minds and shows us how to find the key to freedom ..."--Jacket.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 150.92 Eger Eg Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Biography B Eger Eg Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wailuku Bookmobile Adult Nonfiction 150.92 Eger Eg Checked In Add Copy to MyList         Add Copy to MyList

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