The choice : embrace the possible /
"At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger, a trained ballet dancer and gymnast, was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, the 'Angel of Death, ' Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement--and her survival. He rewarded her with a loaf of bread th...
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New York :
Scribner,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Philip Zimbardo, PhD
- Part I: Prison. Introduction: I had my secret, and my secret had me ; The four questions ; What you put in your mind ; Dancing in hell ; A cartwheel ; The stairs of death ; To choose a blade of grass
- Part II: Escape. My liberator, my assailant ; In through a window ; Next year in Jerusalem ; Flight
- Part III: Freedom. Immigration day ; Greener ; You were there? ; From one survivor to another ; What life expected ; The choice ; Then Hitler won ; Goebbels's bed ; Leave a stone
- Part IV: Healing. The dance of freedom ; The girl without hands ; Somehow the waters part ; Liberation day.