She had suffered unspeakable horrors at the hands of Nazi sadists and lost her mother to executioners before she had even turned 17. But Edith Eger lived to tell the tale of her harrowing time at the ...
Edith Eger was 16 when she was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in May 1944. Her parents were killed there. Eger and her sister Magda survived and were liberated from the Gunskirchen camp the ...
Dr. Edith Eva Eger, a petite figure of 87 years, sat comfortably in an armchair on July 17 and addressed an audience in the intimate setting of Drs. Andrew and Diana Benedek’s Rancho Santa Fe home.
As a clinical psychologist, she empowered people to free themselves from victimhood by realizing they had better choices to make.