"I was told i would see her soon. And my sister magda hugged me and said, the spirit ever dies," he says of his mother. "You have this realization for the first time that while your physical freedom has been entirely stripped from you, you still have control over some of the mental choices that you make." The film is based on a true story about two prisoners who were held captive in Nazi Germany during World War II.
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Edith Eger was just 16 years old when the Nazis forced her and her Jewish family onto a cattle car to the Auschwitz concentation camp. Today, Edith is 94 years old, and a psychologist who specializes in post-traumatic stress disorder. She shares how learning to control her own mind helped her to survive the Holocaust.
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