Books Details
Author : Edith Eger Pages : pages Publisher : Editorial Planeta
Language : spa ISBN-10 : B07D8ZDN14 ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
A powerful, moving memoir?and a practical guide to
healing?written by Dr. Edith Eva Eger, an eminent psychologist
whose own experiences as a Holocaust survivor help her treat
patients and allow them to escape the prisons of their own
minds.Edith Eger was sixteen years old when the Nazis came to
her hometown in Hungary and took her Jewish family to an
interment center and then to Auschwitz. Her parents were sent
to the gas chamber by Joseph Mengele soon after they arrived at
the camp. Hours later Mengele demanded that Edie dance a waltz
to ?The Blue Danube? and rewarded her with a loaf of bread that
she shared with her fellow prisoners. These women later helped
save Edie?s life. Edie and her sister survived Auschwitz, were
transferred to the Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps in Austria,
and managed to live until the American troops liberated the
camps in 1945 and found Edie in a pile of dying bodies. One of
the few living Holocaust survivors to remember the horrors of
the camps, Edie
