Girls Protecting Each Other in Auschwitz | Edith Eger | Women’s History Month | USC Shoah Foundation
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Jewish Holocaust survivor, Dr. Edith Eger, was born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia in 1927. Edith survived the Kosice ghetto, Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp, Gunskirchen concentration camp, and Mauthausen concentration camp. She was liberated by American forces at Gunskirchen.
Part of teenage Edith Eger’s survival in Auschwitz can be credited to her ability to dance, as she was forced to entertain the infamously sadistic Nazi doctor, Josef Mengele. Another part of Edith’s survival can be credited to the relationships she formed with other girls in the camp. In this clip from her testimony, Edith demonstrates how girls utilized their girlhood – and each other – in order to survive.
“Isn’t that magnificent? How the worst can really bring out the best in us?”
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