Summary of Edith Eva Eger's The Choice

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Get the Summary of Edith Eva Eger's The Choice in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement and her survival. Edie was pulled from a pile of corpses when the American troops liberated the camps in 1945.

Edie spent decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor’s guilt, determined to stay silent and hide from the past. Thirty-five years after the war ended, she returned to Auschwitz and was finally able to fully heal and forgive the one person she’d been unable to forgive—herself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638155126

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#1

Edith Eva Eger was born in 1927 to a Jewish family in Košice, Czechoslovakia. She had two older sisters, Klara and Magda. Their mother, Ilona, who lost her own mother at age 6, never lived a day of childhood, and their father was a well-known tailor.

#2

At 14, Edith met her first love, a Jewish boy named Eric, at a book club. Their love was profound, not a superficial crush. When World War II and the uncertainty of the future left them hopeless and afraid, they still planned for their future together.

#3

In 1944 during Passover, a major Jewish holiday, German soldiers showed up at Edith’s home to take them away. Klara was studying violin in Budapest. Her music professor had forbidden her from returning home.

#4

Edith, Magda, and their parents first were sent to the Jakab brick factory at the edge of Košice with all the other Jews in the town. A little girl tried to escape the makeshift camp and was hung to death.

#5

Eric and Edith managed to keep meeting until he was sent away in a truck.