“The Choice: Embrace the Possible” by Edith Eva Egar

At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement and her survival. Edie was pulled from a pile of corpses when the American troops liberated the camps in 1945. Edie spent decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor’s guilt, determined to stay silent and hide from the past. Thirty-five years after the war ended, she returned to Auschwitz and was finally able to fully heal and forgive the one person she’d been unable to forgive—herself. Edie weaves her remarkable personal journey with the moving stories of those she has helped heal. She explores how we can be imprisoned in our own minds and shows us how to find the key to freedom. The Choice is a life-changing book that will provide hope and comfort to generations of readers.

Join us at your home on Zoom: please read the book prior to the event and think about the following:

What did you like best about this book? What did you like least about this book? What feelings did this book evoke for you?
If you got the chance to ask the author of this book one question, what would it be?
What do you think the author’s purpose was in writing this book?
What ideas was he or she trying to get across?

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