roster of permissible baby names kept by, 108
concentration camps. See also Auschwitz concentration camp; Gunskirchen Lager
concentration camp; Mauthausen concentration camp
connection between Edith and Magda in, 37 –39, 41 , 47 , 48 , 51 , 52 , 53 –54, 67 , 69 , 106 , 107 , 205
control, in eating disorders, 184 –85
Czechoslovakia
Communist in, 105 , 108 , 109 , 110 , 111 , 115 , 117 –18, 119
Hungarian Jewish minority in, 19 –20
Nazi policy against Jews in, 27
return of Košice to, 85
dance
“Blue Danube” performance for Mengele, 39 –41, 161
childhood ballet training and, 16 , 18 , 21 , 37 , 139 , 159 , 187
granddaughter’s classes in, 190
learning music and dances from American soldiers during recovery, 77 –78, 79
postwar recovery in Košice and, 97
The Red Shoes movie on, 138 –40, 162
social dancing with Béla, 159 , 163
danger, sense of
repeated encounters with an event reinforcing, 257 –58
Death March to Gunskirchen, 64 –65, 80 , 135
depression, 95 , 179 , 218 , 245
as common diagnosis, 7
grief work to diminish, 257 , 258
as reaction to past, 6
displaced persons camps, 80
Eagle’s Nest (Berghof), Hitler’s residence at, 207 , 210 –11, 212
eating disorder treatment, 182 –90
Eger, Albert, 112 , 145
Eger, Audrey (daughter)
birth of, 143 –44
family life in El Paso and, 146 , 147 , 150 , 151 , 152 , 153 , 154 , 158 , 159 , 165
move to El Paso and, 145
parents’ divorce and, 157 , 167
Eger, Barbara, 148 , 149
Eger, Béla (husband)
accountant job and studies of, 142 , 144 , 149 , 151
American immigration papers secured by, 112 –13, 116 , 145
arrival in New York City and, 129 –31
birth of second child and, 143