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5.0

A deeply moving memoir that offers profound insights into trauma and recovery. It’s a powerful reminder of the resilience of the human spirit.

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Tells a harrowing tale of surviving the Holocaust, escape to America and recovery from trauma. Strong descriptions and emotive, with an uplifting, liberating message. 

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This book is beautifully written and profound to read.
Following the story of Ediths life from her young family life, through the horrors and tribulation, and most horrendous suffering during the camps of  WW2, through to her liberation and later life is incredibly sad and challenging. Further into the book understanding how those experiences shaped her later life, and seeing which choices she made is profound.
It inevitably leads to you reflecting on your own choices and is a must read book.

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What a colossal woman. So much respect.

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4.5

Oh my goodness. 

This is absolutely, undeniably a book for everybody who has ever suffered—and so everybody on this earth—to read. 

The Choice is so much more than a memoir of an Auschwitz survivor. This is a diary of the light that can be found in darkness; of trauma, reconciliation of trauma, and rebirth; of the forgiveness of your torturers (whether they be the SS soldiers of Nazi Germany’s concentration camp, your childhood abuser, or the friend who didn’t invite you to a meal with your group); of the resilience, self-respect, and strength that comprise forgiveness; of the reality of the darkness of trauma, and the fact that only you can liberate yourself from that very mental cage; of the power of choice; of the sacredness of the present. 

This is truly the most transformative non-fiction I have ever read. I hope this book finds itself in many more hands than it already has. 

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