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February 24, 2024 |

Auschwitz Survivor Reveals The Secret To Overcoming Any Obstacle In Life with Dr. Edith Eger.

As a Jew living in Eastern Europe under Nazi occupation, Edith was taken to Auschwitz concentration camp with her parents and sister, at the age of 16. She explains how she found her inner resources, how she came to view her guards as the real prisoners, turn hate into pity and, incredibly, she even describes her horrific experience as ‘an opportunity’. She has liberated herself from the prison of her past through forgiveness.

Sushil Rungta writes:

I am also very fortunate to have met Dr. Eger a few times. Every meeting was illuminating. She really inspires by her story and by her humility. Both her books, The Choice and The Gift are must reads. Coming to the United States when almost 50 years old and accomplishing all that she has is truly remarkable. Also worth noting that her son-in-law is Noble laureate in economics.

Gyve Bones offers:

Last night I watched this dramatized documentary of the life and death of Fr. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Catholic priest who, as a prisoner in Auschwitz, offered his life for the tenth man chosen by the commandant to die in the starvation bunker in retribution for an escape from that cell block. The man was married and had children. Fr. Kolbe stepped out of the assembled ranks, which normally would get a prisoner shot, and asked the commandant if he could take the man’s place. The offer was accepted. He turned the starvation bunker into a chapel, with him leading the nine other men in constant prayer and singing hymns. He was the last one remaining alive, and so the guards dispatched him by injecting carbolic acid into his veins, which makes the CO² bubbles in soda, and causes the heart pump to cavitate and fail.


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