The Choice: Embrace the Possible
by Edith Eger, Edith Eva Eger
Narrated by Tovah Feldshuh
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Edith Eger was 16 when Mengele told her to dance — what she chose to do with that memory took the rest of her life.
- Great if you want: a memoir about survival that becomes a guide to psychological freedom
- Listening experience: emotionally intense early, then slowly opens into hard-won hope
- Narration: Feldshuh brings theatrical weight that matches the material's gravity
- Skip if: you're in a fragile place — the Auschwitz sections are not softened
About This Audiobook
Edith Eger was sixteen when she arrived at Auschwitz, forced to dance for Josef Mengele while her parents were led to the gas chambers. Decades later, she has become one of the world's most sought-after psychotherapists, and this memoir weaves her survival story together with the stories of her patients, exploring how trauma shapes us and how genuine healing is possible. The central question she poses is not why terrible things happen, but what we do with the pain they leave behind.
Tovah Feldshuh brings extraordinary depth to this performance, capturing Eger's warmth and hard-won optimism without softening the horror of what she endured. The audiobook's length allows the therapeutic case studies and personal history to breathe together, and Feldshuh's nuanced delivery makes the transitions between past and present feel seamless. Her voice carries exactly the right combination of gravity and resilience that Eger's story demands.