Latynina, Larisa, 150
Lavis, Gloria and John, 168
learned helplessness, 170
Lili (friend), 166
Man’s Search for Meaning (Frankl), 155 –56, 159 , 161 , 169 , 249
Marianna (Béla’s cousin), 95 , 98 , 100 , 108
Mariska (housekeeper), 103 , 104 , 112 , 115 , 138
marriage
anger at partner’s infidelity in, 196 –200
taking responsibility for oneself in, 204
Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria, 60 –64
anticipating death in, 61 –62
arrival at, 60
Death March to Gunskirchen from, 63 –64, 80 , 135
drawing on inner world for survival in, 135
loss of faith in, 62 –63
Stairs of Death and quarrying stone at, 60 –61
Mengele, Dr. Josef, 44 –45, 140 , 156
Béla on Edith’s approach to, 204 –5
“Blue Danube” performance for, 39 –41, 161
bread received from, 41 , 64
choosing how to respond to, 205
Edith’s desire to track down and confront, 175 –76, 177
first glimpse of, 35
Nazis. See also Auschwitz concentration camp; forced march through Germany; Gunskirchen
Lager concentration camp; Mauthausen concentration camp
Béla’s escape from, 99
Béla’s family deaths in Prešov and, 98 , 99
Jewish life in Hungary and, 20 –21, 22 , 47
Nuremberg Trials, 175
Olympics
Edith’s gymnastics training for, 23 –25, 82
Edith’s reaction to Keleti’s performance in, 149 –50
Operation Barbarossa, 21
panic attacks in, 6 , 205 , 260 –62
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), 7 , 135 , 203
Prešov, Slovakia