"No one can take away from you what you put here in your own mind," she says. "Everything was taken away from me." She recalls being told by an officer at Auschwitz that her mother would be taking a shower after the concentration camp's death camps were liberated, and how he grabbed her when she tried to leave. 'Never for i never forget those eyes. Never for i ever forget those eyes'
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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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