From Anne Frank to Primo Levi, there are many Holocaust survival memoirs, and each is a tale that must be told. What makes The Choice (Rider, September) by 89-year-old Edith Eger particularly ...
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.
At 93, Edith Eger has a lot to say about love. As a clinical psychologist based in La Jolla, California, she’s still seeing patients, observing that couples most want to talk to her about sex, money ...
It’s never too late to become a bestselling author. Just ask 92-year-old clinical psychologist Edith Eger, who hit the New York Times bestseller list in 2017 with her memoir, “The Choice” (Scribner).
BIANNA GOLODRYGA, SENIOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST: Well, now, as the world seeks to understand the definition of genocide and how to prevent it, while also reflecting on Israel’s history, we look ahead ...
In the spring of 1944, Edith Eger and her family were taken from their home in Hungary and sent to the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Oświęcim, Poland. She was just 16 years old.
Before she was a doctor and an author and an inspirational speaker, before Oprah ever interviewed her, Edith Eva Eger was a teenager whose Hungarian family was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp ...
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 ...