The Choice

birth of third child and, 149
childhood music studies of, 141
children’s reaction to divorce of, 157
Communists’ arrest of, 115 –19
Communists’ harassment of, 109 , 110 , 111
courtship letters to Edith from, 97 –98, 163
decision to immigrate to America with Edith by, 130
desire for new relationship with Edith after divorce, 167 –68
earlier romantic relationships of, 93 , 95 –96, 100
early married life in Eger mansion in Prešov, 103 –5
Edith’s decision to divorce, 158 –59, 162 , 163
Edith’s decision to immigrate to America and, 125 , 130 , 140
Edith’s decision to marry, 99 –100
Edith’s feeling of love for, 96 , 99 , 118 , 160
Edith’s pregnancy and birth of first child and, 104 –5, 107 , 108
Edith’s return to Auschwitz and, 221 –22, 227 , 228 , 233
Edith’s survivor past and family life and, 151 , 153 –54
Edith’s trip to Berchtesgaden and, 204 –5, 208 , 209 –10
El Paso move and, 145 –46
escape from prison and train trip out of Czechoslovakia by, 118 –21
family background of, 98 –99
family life in El Paso and, 149 , 150 , 155
first American job of, 137 , 140 , 142
first marriage to a gentile woman by, 96 , 99
initial meeting with Edith, 93
Israel immigration plans of, 111 –13, 122 , 123 –24, 125
marriage and honeymoon with Edith, 101 –2
Marianne’s childhood pneumonia and, 109 –10
refuge stay in Vienna and, 121 –25
second marriage with Edith, 168
son’s challenges and, 152 –53
struggles adjusting to life in Baltimore and, 137 –38
stutter of, 94 , 98 , 102 , 137 , 144
TB hospital stay of, 95 –96, 124 , 130 –31
TB recurrence in Baltimore and, 140 –41
trip to Israel with Edith, 173
trip to TB hospital with Edith, 94
wartime escape from Nazis by, 98 –99
Eger, Bob, 145 , 148
Eger, Dickie (Richard), 148 –49
Eger, Duci, 137 , 143