The Choice

soldiers’ removal of family from their apartment and, 29 , 30 –31
thread factory work and, 50
train journey home after recovery, 80 –83
train transport to Auschwitz and, 33 –34
Gilbert, Ted, 165
Gladstein, Laci (later Larry Goldstone), 107
Edith’s early friendship with, 81 –82, 83
Edith’s reunion with, 147 –48
move to El Paso by, 96 , 106 , 147
talk with Edith about past, 211 –12
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), 12 , 243
grief and grieving
denial and, 104
Edith and Béla’s marriage and unfinished, 101
Edith’s experience of, 94 , 190 –91, 206 , 218 , 232 , 267
Edith’s mother’s childhood loss of her mother and, 205
Edith’s mother’s death and, 37 , 92
Edith’s return to Auschwitz as rite of, 220 , 232 –33
Eric’s death and, 92
failed marriages and, 239 , 256 –57, 258
forgiveness and, 212
healing by choosing to let go of, 6 , 263
lengthy mourning as impediment to process of, 266 –67
loss of a child and, 8 , 176
older woman’s experience of grief over mother, 218 –20
parents after a child’s suicide and, 263 –67
physiological manifestation of, 164
Vietnam veterans and, 224 –25
for what happened and what didn’t happen, 190 –91
Gunskirchen Lager concentration camp, Austria, 65 –69
broken back at, 66
calling on memories of mother during, 66
connection between Edith and Magda during, 67 , 69
Death March from Mauthausen to, 63 –64, 80 , 135
death of prisoners at, 65 , 66
Edith’s rescue from, 68 –69
food fantasies and desires during, 66 –67, 68
liberation of, 67 –69, 170
Magda’s flirting as escape at, 65 –66
gymnastics
Edith’s training for, 23 –25, 82