of oneself, 212 , 231 –32, 233
rage and, 258
survivors and, 174
Frankl, Viktor, 155 –56, 159 , 161 –62, 169 , 222 , 237 , 249
Freud, Sigmund, 32 , 95
Gaby (doctor), 91 , 92 –93, 97
Gilbert, Magda Eléfant (sister)
attempted escape from train by, 51
attempt to steal potatoes by, 52 –53
Auschwitz concentration camp experiences of, 37 –39, 41 , 43 , 47 , 48 , 49
bombing of ammunition factory and, 53 –54, 107
as boxcar decoys on ammunition trains, 50 –52
connection between Edith and, in concentration camps, 37 –39, 41 , 47 , 48 , 51 , 52 , 53 –54, 67 ,
69 , 106 , 107 , 205
daughter of, 144 , 267
Death March to Gunskirchen and, 64
decision to move to America by, 106 –7, 111 , 113
divorce of, 165
Edith’s arrival in New York City and, 129
Edith’s childhood memories of, 13 , 14 –15, 20 , 25 –26
Edith’s desire to be reunited with, in Baltimore, 140
Edith’s later return to Auschwitz and, 221
Edith’s recovery in Košice and, 89 , 96
Edith’s stealing of carrots for, 55 –56, 57
Edith’s wedding and, 101
family’s use of identifying phrase for, 188
father’s forced labor camp imprisonment and, 23
forced march through Germany and, 52 –53, 54 –55, 59 –60, 222
Gunskirchen concentration camp experiences of, 65 –66, 67
Klara’s courtship and marriage and, 90 , 96 , 105
Klara’s proposed move to Australia and, 105 –6
life in America and, 133 , 140
marriage to Nat, 143 , 144 , 165
marriage to Ted, 165
Mauthausen concentration camp experiences of, 61 , 62 , 63 –64
nightmares of, 267 –68
postwar physical recovery in Wels, Austria, 73 –75, 76 –77, 78 –79
rebellion against soldiers and beating of, 59 –60
rescue of, at Gunskirchen, 68 –69
return to Košice and reunion with Klara, 85 , 86 , 88 –89, 93
revenge fantasies of, 54 , 78 –79, 209