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“I’ll be forever changed by Dr. Eger’s story…The Choice is a reminder of what courage looks like in the worst of times and that we all have the ability to pay attention to what we’ve lost, or to pay attention to what we still have.” -- Oprah

"Edith’s strength and courage are remarkable in this memoir as she draws on her own unthinkable experience in Nazi concentration camps to become a therapist and help others recover from all kinds of hardship. Her life and work are an incredible example of forgiveness, resilience and generosity." -- Sheryl Sandberg

“Dr. Edith Eva Eger is my kind of hero. She survived unspeakable horrors and brutality; but rather than let her painful past destroy her, she chose to transform it into a powerful gift ? one she uses to help others heal.” -- Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle

"The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leave you forever changed. Dr. Eger's life reveals our capacity to transcend even the greatest of horrors and to use that suffering for the benefit of others. She has found true freedom and forgiveness and shows us how we can as well." -- Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

“I can’t imagine a more important message for modern times. Eger’s book is a triumph, and should be read by all who care about both their inner freedom and the future of humanity.”, New York Times Book Review

A beautiful memoir, reminiscent of the great works of Anne Frank and Viktor Frankl. But it is more than a book-it is a work of art. It gave me goosebumps, the kind that grace you in transcendent moments of appreciating a Mozart sonata, an Elizabeth Barrett Browning sonnet, or the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. -- Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take, Originals, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg

"A more important book for our times is hard to imagine", The Bookseller

Chapter Page
Foreword
by Philip Zimbardo, PhD xiii
Part I Prison
Introduction: I Had My Secret, and My Secret Had Me 3
1. The Four Questions 11
2. What You Put in Your Mind 29
3. Dancing in Hell 37
4. A Cartwheel 47
5. The Stairs of Death 59
6. To Choose a Blade of Grass 65
Part II Escape
7. My Liberator, My Assailant 73
8. In Through a Window 85
9. Next Year in Jerusalem 101
10. Flight 115
Part III Freedom
11. Immigration Day 129
12. Greener 133
13. You Were There? 145
14. From One Survivor to Another 157
15. What Life Expected 169
16. The Choice 181
17. Then Hitler Won 203
18. Goebbels's Bed 207
19. Leave a Stone 221
Part IV Healing
20. The Dance of Freedom 237
21. The Girl Without Hands 251
22. Somehow the Waters Part 263
23. Liberation Day 271
Acknowledgments 273
Index 277

A New York Times Bestseller

“I’ll be forever changed by Dr. Eger’s story…The Choice is a reminder of what courage looks like in the worst of times and that we all have the ability to pay attention to what we’ve lost, or to pay attention to what we still have.”-Oprah

“Dr. Eger’s life reveals our capacity to transcend even the greatest of horrors and to use that suffering for the benefit of others. She has found true freedom and forgiveness and shows us how we can as well.” -Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

“Dr. Edith Eva Eger is my kind of hero. She survived unspeakable horrors and brutality; but rather than let her painful past destroy her, she chose to transform it into a powerful gift-one she uses to help others heal.” -Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and Christopher Award

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.

Edie weaves her remarkable personal journey with the moving stories of those she has helped heal. She explores how we can be imprisoned in our own minds and shows us how to find the key to freedom. The Choice is a life-changing book that will provide hope and comfort to generations of readers.