Dr Edith Eger I REMEMBER…

…MY MOTHER TELLING ME, VERY SERIOUSLY, "I’M GLAD THAT YOU HAVE BRAINS BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO LOOKS". I had two beautiful sisters, Magda and Klara, both older, and I took what my mother said to heart, and I was not angry with her. I wanted to prove how smart I was, so I did really well in school. Just because someone tells you that you’re not pretty, or you’re not smart doesn’t mean you have to give up, because the only one you have for your lifetime is you.

He told me that I had beautiful eyes and beautiful hands when we were separated at the transport to Auschwitz. We met in Kosice when I was 14 and we were together for two years before