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Edith Eva Eger

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Dr. Edith Eva Eger maintains a busy clinical practice in La Jolla, California, and holds a faculty appointment at the University of California, San Diego. She also serves as a consultant for the U.S. Army and Navy in resiliency training and the treatment of PTSD. Edie is still dancing-and ends her mostra'n més talks with a ballet high kick. mostra'n menys

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Nom normalitzat
Eger, Edith Eva
Data de naixement
1927-09-29
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
Czechoslovakia (birth)
USA
Lloc de naixement
Czechoslovakia
Košice, Slovakia
Llocs de residència
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
La Jolla, California, USA
Educació
University of Texas, El Paso
Professions
therapist
author
public speaker
Holocaust survivor
memoirist
clinical psychologist
Agent
Doug Abrams
Biografia breu
Edith Eva Eger was born to a family of Hungarian Jews living in Košice, Czechoslovakia (present-day Slovakia). Her parents were Lajos and Ilona Elefánt; her father was a tailor and her mother a civil servant. Her two older sisters, Clara and Magda, were talented musicians. Edith attended gymnasium (high school) and took ballet lessons. In 1942, Hungary, which had annexed the region, enacted anti-Jewish laws, and their whole world changed. In March 1944, when Edith was 17, the family was forced with other Jews into the Košice ghetto; Clara was hidden by her music teacher. In May of that year, they were deported to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. Her parents were sent to the gas chambers immediately, but Edith and Magda were selected to work.
Later, the girls were sent to other camps, including Mauthausen in Austria. In 1945, as the Red Army approached, the sisters were sent on a death march to the Gunskirchen subcamp. Edith nearly collapsed from disease and starvation along the way but other girls helped to carry her. When the U.S. military liberated the camp in May 1945, according to Edith, she was left for dead among a number of bodies. A soldier is said to have rescued her after seeing her hand move.

After World War II ended, Edith recovered in her native city; there she met and married Béla (Albert) Éger, a fellow survivor, with whom she would have three children. In 1949, they emigrated to the USA. She received her PhD degree in clinical psychology from the University of Texas, El Paso

in 1978 and opened a practice in La Jolla, California. She holds a faculty appointment at the University of California, San Diego. She is a frequently-invited speaker throughout the USA and abroad, and has appeared on many television programs. The documentary film I Danced for the Angel of Death: The Dr. Edith Eva Eger Story aired on public television in 2015. Her memoir The Choice: Embrace the Possible was published in 2017. Her second book The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life appeared in 2020.

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Love this book. An amazing story from an unbelievably strong woman. Her positive attitude is remarkable. Her whole life journey and self discovery was amazing. Loved also reading about the patient she saw and how she was healing them and the challenges they were facing. Definitely had me doing some self reflection. Love the book so much bought her other book.
 
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bermandog | Hi ha 31 ressenyes més | Feb 17, 2024 |
***Recommended by Chris Harrington
 
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jennrashctfcu | Hi ha 31 ressenyes més | Feb 16, 2024 |
There's quite a bit I don't agree or like about this author and while I anticipated a different angle, perhaps more motivational in nature- the tale nonetheless resonates with profound significance.

This gripping narrative delves into the harrowing experiences of a survivor, evoking raw emotions that left me "ugly crying" throughout the initial chapters.

As I turned the pages, I found myself overwhelmed by the sheer intensity of Edith's journey and the atrocities she endured. The people she remembered and how she remembered them.… (més)
 
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selsha | Hi ha 31 ressenyes més | Feb 8, 2024 |
"We have a choice. To pay attention to what we've lost or pay attention to what we still have"

"Maybe going forward means circling back"

"What do we unconsciously teach our children?"

"The people we loved or relied on disappeared or let us down. He needed to be held and I held him"

"You can avenge the past or enrich the future"

"To forgive is to grieve for what happened, for what didn't happen, and to give up the need for a different past. To accept life as it was and as it is"

"Find the bigot in you"

"Arbeit macht frei but that work doesn't set you free. I was free and did the work I needed to do. The inner work sets you free"

"What do you want? Who wants it? What are you going to do about it? When?"

"Pediatrician and psychoanalyst DW Winnicott has said "It is a joy to be hidden but a disaster not to be found""
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Moshepit20 | Hi ha 31 ressenyes més | Jan 13, 2024 |

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Obres
10
Membres
1,229
Popularitat
#20,884
Valoració
½ 4.4
Ressenyes
40
ISBN
70
Llengües
12

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