She had suffered unspeakable horrors at the hands of Nazi sadists and lost her mother to executioners before she had even turned 17. But Edith Eger lived to tell the tale of her harrowing time at the ...

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.

Edith Eger was 16 when she was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in May 1944. Her parents were killed there. Eger and her sister Magda survived and were liberated from the Gunskirchen camp the ...

Edith Eva Eger, a clinical psychologist and bestselling author whose traumatic experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps — including being forced to dance for Josef Mengele, the notorious ...

“I don’t have time to hate. I don’t forget what happened to me. I may not overcome it – I think I came to terms with it, and I was able to integrate it,” Eger said in a 1998 interview. Auschwitz ...