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“I had my 17th birthday in Auschwitz,”; Holocaust survivor
Topic Started: Jan 26 2015, 04:21 PM (91 Views)
DrLeftover
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I was going to post this on another board, but I thought it wouldn't be welcome given the overall tone of that forum now.

So, it's here.


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Edith Eva Eger says the portrait was taken by her first teenage crush: a Jewish boy named Imre. He, like so many others, would not survive the Holocaust. “I had my 17th birthday in Auschwitz,” Eger says.

Seventy years later, Eger appears frail at first glance, until she astounds a new acquaintance by performing a dance kick that goes shoulder-high. The 87-year old says her fondest childhood memories still revolve around dancing and training to compete for the Hungarian Olympic team as a gymnast. “But then I was told that I had to train somewhere else because I’m Jewish, and I do not qualify [for the Olympics],” Eger recalls. “My dream was totally shattered.” Eger was a Hungarian Jew, the youngest of three daughters, living in a town called Kosice in what is modern-day Slovakia. Her father was a tailor; her mother, a civil servant.

It wasn’t until March 1944, late in World War II, that Eger says Hungarian Nazis came to her house and arrested her family.

http://fox2now.com/2015/01/26/17-year-old-forced-to-dance-for-the-doctor-who-ordered-her-parents-death/
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A very touching, very poignant and very tragic tale....the best part, though: when she talked about her great-grand-children. How'd she put it..."Living well is the best revenge."

That's how...she stared evil in the face and outlasted it.
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