The Choice
An Auschwitz survivor who became a psychologist shares her journey to freedom and healing.
Biography
Edith Eger is a Hungarian-born American psychologist who survived Auschwitz as a teenager. She wrote The Choice (2017) and The Gift (2020).
Main ideas and philosophy
Eger teaches that while we cannot change what happened, we can choose how we respond and free ourselves from the past.
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