A native of Hun­gary, Edith Eger was a teenag­er when she and her fam­i­ly were sent to Auschwitz.

Despite over­whelm­ing odds, Edith sur­vived the Holo­caust and emi­grat­ed with her hus­band and young daugh­ter to Amer­i­ca where she raised a fam­i­ly, earned a Ph.D., and prac­ticed psy­chol­o­gy. She spent decades hid­ing from her past, strug­gling with flash­back and sur­vivors guilt. 35 years after World War II end­ed, Edith returned to Auschwitz and was final­ly able to heal and for­give her­self. Today she main­tains a busy clin­i­cal prac­tice and helps oth­ers heal.