RT @KingDavid9y: ❤️ Edith Eger was born in 1927 in Košice. She studied ballet and gymnastics and even made Hungary’s Olympic team — until she was expelled for being Jewish.
At 16 she was deported to Auschwitz with her family. That same day her mother was sent to the gas chamber. That evening Josef Mengele ordered her to dance. The camp orchestra played “The Blue Danube.” Edith closed her eyes and imagined she was not in a death camp, but at the Budapest opera house. For the dance she was given a loaf of bread — she shared it with her sister and the other women. Later, those same women carried her during the death march when she could no longer walk.
By the end of the war she weighed about 32 kilograms. An American soldier found her among the bodies only because he noticed a faint movement of her hand.
After the war she married almost out of desperation, emigrated to the United States, worked in a factory, and barely spoke English. At 50 she became a psychologist and spent the rest of her life treating other people’s trauma — in part because she had spent so long hiding her own. Her idea was simple: the past cannot be changed, but you can choose how to look at it. The worst prison is the one a person builds inside themselves.
Edith Eger died on April 27, 2026, in San Diego. She was 98.🙏
🎗️Anna Keinan
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