Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Choice | 2017 | Buy |
| The Gift | 2020 | Buy |
| The Ballerina of Auschwitz | 2024 | Buy |
Edith Eva Eger was born in Hungary and was sent to Auschwitz at age sixteen along with her family. A trained ballet dancer and gymnast, she was forced to dance for Josef Mengele on the night her parents were killed in the gas chambers. She survived the camps and was pulled from a pile of bodies by American soldiers when they liberated the camp in 1945.
After the war, Eger moved to the United States, earned her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Texas at El Paso, and opened a therapy practice in La Jolla, California. She has spent decades working with trauma survivors, veterans, and people struggling with PTSD.
Her memoir The Choice (2017) became a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller. The Gift (2020) offers twelve lessons drawn from her clinical experience, and The Ballerina of Auschwitz (2024) is a young readers’ edition of her story.