Edith Eva Eger

1. She was just sixteen when Nazi soldiers came to her family's door. Edith Eva Eger, a Hungarian girl who dreamed of ballet, of love, of an ordinary life. That dream ended at Auschwitz. As her family arrived, her mother turned to her and whispered one final sentence: "No one can take away what's in your mind." Moments later, her mother was gone forever. Edith survived only because Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous "Angel of Death," ordered her to dance for him. When she finished, he tossed her a piece of bread. She broke it and shared it with other starving prisoners. That act of kindness would one day save her life, when others later shared their rations to keep her alive. Did you know that the Nazis caused starvation in the concentration camps so eventually the prisoners will die slowly from hunger, malnutrition besides mass killing in gas chamber?

2. When liberation finally came, Edith weighed just 32 kilograms. Her body was broken. Her family was gone. But her soul refused to die. Years later, she built a new life in America. She became a psychologist, a specialist in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. Her memoir entitled The Choice: Embrace the Possible, published in 2017, became an international bestseller and one of the most powerful testaments to human endurance ever written. "Forgiveness doesn't change the past," she wrote. "It frees the future." Have you ever read the book "The Choice: Embrace the Possible" by Dr. Edith E. Eger, a Holocaust survivor?