About the Author
© JORDAN ENGLEA native of Hungary, Dr. Edith Eva Eger was just a young teenager
when she and her family were sent to Auschwitz, the heinous Nazi
death camp, in 1944. Her parents lost their lives there. Today, at age
ninety, Dr. Eger maintains a busy clinical psychology practice in La
Jolla, California, holds a faculty appointment at the University of
California, San Diego, and regularly gives lectures around the country
and abroad, also serving as a consultant for the U.S. Army and Navy in
resiliency training and the treatment of PTSD. She has appeared on
numerous television programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and
a CNN special commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the
liberation of Auschwitz, and was the primary subject of a Holocaust