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More than a story about a woman surviving the holocaust. But a raw account of how 80 years later she is still working though the psychological damage.
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Gut wrenching story of survival. Edith is an incredible human and a true role model. Has helped me re-think some of my current struggles.
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A beautiful book. This is more than a memoir of a survivor of the Holocaust. She has woven her personal account of surviving the Holocaust and overcoming its ghosts of anger, shame and guilt with stories of how she has helped others to heal. She examines how we can make a choice to be free.
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This book was an inspiration... and a heartbreak. I started reading it, thinking it was about the author's experiences in Auschwitz, but that was just a short part at the beginning. It is about Edith surviving each day after that.
I loved the writing, the patients' stories, and the hopeful feeling the book left after I finished it
I loved the writing, the patients' stories, and the hopeful feeling the book left after I finished it
An extraordinary autobiography which defies belief as this lady shares her experience of growing up as a Jew in Hungary in the 1930s and 1940s. The unfolding horrors are heartbreaking, yet throughout the whole retelling of her story she helps us to focus through a lens of choice. She asks questions of herself in the middle of impossible situations to remind herself that no matter how helpless things seem, there is always a decision to be made about how we can react to those situations. Finding beauty in the middle of a concentration camp, and choosing the 1% chance of living for one more day - or sometimes even one more hour - becomes her driving force, and one she has to fight hard to keep in her life in the decades that follow such traumatic experiences.
As well as this being a fascinating and inspiring personal account, Eger shares the insights that she develops in the later part of her life as she becomes a renowned psychologist. Through her research and practice, she is able to help many people whose life experiences couldn’t be more different than hers. Rather than perceiving herself as superior for having faced ‘worse’ horrific life experiences, she is able to deeply empathise with people in their own struggles, and to offer perspectives that would be useful to any one of us, no matter what our own story and challenges.
As well as this being a fascinating and inspiring personal account, Eger shares the insights that she develops in the later part of her life as she becomes a renowned psychologist. Through her research and practice, she is able to help many people whose life experiences couldn’t be more different than hers. Rather than perceiving herself as superior for having faced ‘worse’ horrific life experiences, she is able to deeply empathise with people in their own struggles, and to offer perspectives that would be useful to any one of us, no matter what our own story and challenges.