The Choice : Embrace The Possible

EAudiobook 2017

"At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger, a trained ballet dancer and gymnast, was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, the 'Angel of Death, ' Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement--and her survival. He rewarded her with a loaf of bread that she shared with her fellow prisoners--an act of generosity that would later save her life. Edie and her sister survived multiple death camps and the Death March....

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ISBN:

9781508229360
9781508229346

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1 sound file : digital
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Includes index
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Electronic reproduction. New York Simon and Schuster Audio 2017 Available via World Wide Web

Contents:

Foreword / Philip Zimbardo, PhD
Part I: Prison. Introduction: I had my secret, and my secret had me ; The four questions ; What you put in your mind ; Dancing in hell ; A cartwheel ; The stairs of death ; To choose a blade of grass
Part II: Escape. My liberator, my assailant ; In through a window ; Next year in Jerusalem ; Flight
Part III: Freedom. Immigration day ; Greener ; You were there? ; From one survivor to another ; What life expected ; The choice ; Then Hitler won ; Goebbels's bed ; Leave a stone
Part IV: Healing. The dance of freedom ; The girl without hands ; Somehow the waters part ; Liberation day

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3354333

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OverDrive, Inc., distributor
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Weigand, Esmé Schwall, author
Zimbardo, Philip G., writer of foreword

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