This week, Edith Eva Eger passed away at 99.
At 16, she was deported to Auschwitz with her parents. They were murdered upon arrival. Edith, a ballet dancer and gymnast was forced to perform for Josef Mengele.
In her memoir, The Choice, she writes:
“Dance for me,” Mengele ordered.
As he watched, he calmly decided who would live and who would die.
“If I miss a step… it could be me.”
“I dance. I dance. I dance in hell.”
In that moment, she made a decision that stayed with her for life:
“I am free in my mind. He never will be.”
When Allied forces arrived, she was found barely alive in a pile of bodies - saved only because an American soldier noticed her hand move.
After the war, she immigrated to the United States, built a family, and struggled with survivor’s guilt until meeting Viktor Frankl, whose guidance helped her heal.
She went on to become a psychologist influenced by logotherapy and an existentialist approach to therapy.
At 90, she published The Choice, which became an international bestseller. She later wrote The Ballerina of Auschwitz and The Gift.
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Hants Community Hospital Emergency Department in Windsor will be closed from 3 p.m. on Saturday, February 28 to March 1 at 8 a.m. Virtual urgent care will not be available during this time. More info: https://t.co/iKlZP11j5b
Having served with Jim Jordan and having been very good friends with Jim Jordan, I do not believe he understands the ugly irony of what he’s saying here. I really don’t. And that’s a big problem. Interpret that however you’d like.
More than 40,000 Canadian Armed Forces members served during Canada’s mission in Afghanistan. 158 never came home, and many others returned carrying physical and psychological wounds that continue long after service ends.
Today, and everyday, we Remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice, we honour the courage of all who served, and we stand with the Veterans and families who live every day with the lasting impacts of that mission.
As an organization committed to supporting Veterans of all eras, our focus remains on Remembrance, respect, and support — for the fallen, for those who served and returned, and for their loved ones.
To learn more about Canada’s longest war and the people who served, we invite you to explore this interactive story from Legion Magazine: https://t.co/GKpkAyGpF5
Statement from the Prime Minister of Denmark 🇩🇰:
“I must say this very clearly to the United States:
It makes absolutely no sense to speak of any necessity for the United States to take over Greenland. The United States has no legal basis to annex one of the three countries of the Kingdom of Denmark.
The Kingdom of Denmark — and thus Greenland — is a member of NATO and is therefore covered by the Alliance’s collective security guarantee. We already have a defence agreement between the Kingdom of Denmark and the United States that grants the U.S. broad access to Greenland. In addition, the Kingdom has made significant investments in security in the Arctic.
I therefore strongly urge the United States to cease its threats against a historically close ally, and against another country and another people who have stated very clearly that they are not for sale.”
Mette Frederiksen
Prime Minister of Denmark
2 January 1944 | SS camp doctor made a selection at the men’s quarantine sector BIIa at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. 141 selected prisoners were murdered in a gas chamber.
🎧 Podcast about criminal medicine in Auschwitz: https://t.co/g8w9Y5dES6