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4.51 AVERAGE
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This memoir is the Young Adult version of the author's book, The Choice, written by Edith Eger, a renowned psychologist and Holocaust survivor. Whenever I read such a memoir, it is a heavy experience but worthwhile. This one was amazing.
The Jewish author was fifteen in Hungary, studying to be a ballerina in a talented family of musicians when the Nazis came. She provides so much insight in this book that not only educates about this horrific time but also reveals her emotional state and how she managed to continue living during the period when she was taken to Auschwitz and eventually freed from the last concentration camp. I had to pause in parts to breathe.
The book is written for ages 12-18, but as a parent, I'd suggest this for fifteen years of age and older.
The Jewish author was fifteen in Hungary, studying to be a ballerina in a talented family of musicians when the Nazis came. She provides so much insight in this book that not only educates about this horrific time but also reveals her emotional state and how she managed to continue living during the period when she was taken to Auschwitz and eventually freed from the last concentration camp. I had to pause in parts to breathe.
The book is written for ages 12-18, but as a parent, I'd suggest this for fifteen years of age and older.
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he Ballerina of Auschwitz is a retelling of The Choice with approximately 30 per cent entirely new material, which offers readers both a more expansive and more intimate understanding of Edith’s journey.
I am humbled by Edith's story, her strength to share it with the world and her outlook on life as shared both in The Choice and in The Ballerina of Auschwitz.
It is a very emotional read, much of which is hard to accept actually happened as it is so brutal.
I am forever grateful to Edith and other survivors for sharing their stories. To see that there was hope in all the misery, "if I can survive today, then tomorrow I will be free".
Her realisation that to continue living, rather than simply existing, there is a choice - "to pay attention to what we’ve lost or to pay attention to what we still have".
Thank you.
I am humbled by Edith's story, her strength to share it with the world and her outlook on life as shared both in The Choice and in The Ballerina of Auschwitz.
It is a very emotional read, much of which is hard to accept actually happened as it is so brutal.
I am forever grateful to Edith and other survivors for sharing their stories. To see that there was hope in all the misery, "if I can survive today, then tomorrow I will be free".
Her realisation that to continue living, rather than simply existing, there is a choice - "to pay attention to what we’ve lost or to pay attention to what we still have".
Thank you.
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced