At one point edith, you found yourself unable to keep walking due to extreme exhaustion. You had shared the small piece of bread that you were given with with the other girls. And in turn, when you were walking what you believed would be your last steps, they used their arms to create a chair for you and help you continue forward. I wouldn't have made it if i would have gobbled up that bread that giving is is getting. Imagine how the worst condition brings out the best in us.
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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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