She survived Auschwitz to become a world-renowned psychologist. Now 92, in a wise and provocative new book, Dr EDITH EGER says . . . Unlock your mental prison and learn to love your life

At the age of 16, in the spring of 1944, I was living with my parents and two older sisters in Kassa, Hungary. Despite the signs of war and prejudice around us — the yellow stars we wore pinned to our coats; the newspaper accounts of German occupation spreading across Europe; the awful day when I was cut from the Olympic gymnastics team because I was Jewish — I had been blissfully preoccupied with ordinary teenage concerns. I was in love with my first boyfriend, Eric, the tall, intelligent boy I’d met in book club. I replayed our first kiss and admired my new blue silk dress. I marked my progress in the ballet and gymnastics studio, and joked with Magda, my beautiful eldest sister, and Klara, who was studying violin at a conservatory in Budapest. And then everything changed. American-Hungarian Holocaust survivor, psychotherapist and dancer Edith Eva Eger poses during a photo session in De Bilt, The Netherlands, on May 2, 2019 One cold dawn in April, the Jews of Kassa were rounded up and imprisoned in an old brick factory on the edge of town. A few weeks later, Magda, my parents and I were loaded into a… Read full this story

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