Hungarian-Jewish Writing out of Southern California

was born into the polyglot Hungarian, Slovak, German, Jewish, etc.-altogether 16 different ethnic nationalities-community of Kassa (today Kosice, Slovak Republic).She was 16 when she and her family were sent to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, Poland.Her parents lost their lives there.She emigrated to the U.S. and in the 1940s she completed her university studies of psychology.Today she is an internationally known psychologist.She is also one of the few remaining Holocaust survivors in the world today.She is a resident of LaJolla, California, where she maintains a busy clinical practice and holds a faculty appointment at the University of California, San Diego.She also serves as a consultant for the U.S. Army and Navy in resiliency training and the treatment of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder).Dr. Eger has appeared on numerous television programs, including a CNN special commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.She was also the subject of a one-hour

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