Author

Books by Edith Eva Eger

Edith Eva Eger was born in 1927 in Košice, Czechoslovakia, and survived Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gunskirchen, and multiple death marches before being liberated in 1945. She emigrated to the United States, eventually completing a PhD in psychology from William University at age fifty. She practiced as a clinical psychologist in El Paso, Texas, for decades and worked extensively with US military veterans suffering from PTSD. The Choice, her memoir and first book, was published when she was ninety years old. Her second book, The Gift, extends the clinical framework introduced in The Choice. She lives in La Jolla, California.