10/11/2025
So true!
She was only 16 years old when N**i soldiers knocked on her family’s door.
Her name was Edith Eva Eger, she lived in Hungary, and she loved to dance.
She dreamed of becoming a ballerina, of getting married, of building a normal life.
But that dream shattered in an instant.
She was deported with her family to Auschwitz.
When they arrived, her mother whispered to her for the last time:
“Remember, no one can ever take away what you have in your mind.”
A few minutes later, her mother was sent to the gas chambers.
Edith survived only because Dr. Josef Mengele, the “Angel of Death,” forced her to dance for him.
He gave her a piece of bread as a “reward.”
She shared it with the other prisoners.
That small act of kindness, in a place built to destroy humanity, saved her life.
She survived death marches, hunger, and abuse.
When she was liberated, she weighed barely thirty kilos.
She had lost everything — except her will to live.
Years later, she emigrated to the United States.
She married, had children, and studied psychology.
For years, she never spoke of what she had endured.
Until one day, she realized that unspoken pain is a prison.
So she decided to tell her story — transforming her suffering into healing for others.
She wrote an extraordinary book: “The Choice.”
Not a story of victimhood, but of freedom.
She used to say:
“Forgiveness doesn’t excuse what happened.
It’s not about changing the past — it’s about freeing the future.”
Today, her words are taught in universities and therapy centers all over the world.
Edith Eger showed that the body can be imprisoned, but the mind cannot.
That even in hell, one can choose to remain human.
And that forgiveness — true forgiveness — doesn’t absolve those who do harm,
but it liberates those who refuse to remain their captives.
