Edith Eger believes that fascism is very much alive in parts of the US and EuropeWhen Dr Edith Eger boarded her flight from London to California last Saturday she was on top of the world. The world-renowned psychologist, Holocaust survivor, keen swing dancer, Jeopardy fan, inspirational speaker and bestselling author had just become, at 91, a viral sensation in Britain. A pair of magnetic appearances on the BBC’s Breakfast and Woman’s Hour, during which she shared compassionate, uplifting insights mined from the horrors she endured in Auschwitz as a girl, led to her trending on social media and sent her extraordinary memoir, The Choice, racing to the top of the book charts in Britain and Ireland. It was the sort of success that, along with her three children, five grandchildren and three great-grandsons, constituted “the best revenge to Hitler” that…

Source: The Times November 05, 2018 00:03 UTC