Edith Eger, Breaking Relationship Patterns, Taking up Boxing at Fifty
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Seventy five years ago today Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz Birkenau. January 27th is Holocaust Remembrance day. Edith Eger is a psychologist from Hungary. She was 16, an enthusiastic dancer and gymnast, when she was taken with her family to Auschwitz. She’s now 92. In 2018 she published a memoir about her experiences and how they shaped her life, it’s called “The Choice”. Tina Dahaley asked her what happened when they got to the camp in Poland:
Aged fifty Marion Dunn joined a boxing gym. The fitness training proved incredibly hard but Marion soon became addicted to it and to learning how to punch with the best of them. She explains to Jane why she thinks boxing is such a wonderful activity.
When you look back over your relationships do you see patterns? In the third in a series the story of a woman we are calling Katy who feels that her earliest experiences shaped what she looked for and needed from her partners.
Zakiya Mckenzie, a writer from Bristol, talks to Jane about spending a year as Forestry England's writer in residence and her attempts to make the green movement more black.
Presenter: Jane Garvey Interviewed guest: Edith Eger Interviewed guest: Marion Dunn Interviewed guest: Zakiya Mckenzie Reporter: Tina Dahaley Reporter: Millie Chowles Producer: Lucinda Montefiore
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| 0:36.7 | Good morning to you. |
| 0:38.3 | Now, today you'll know that 75 years to the day Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birchenau |
| 0:46.2 | and January the 27th is now Holocaust Remembrance Day. Edith Eager is a psychologist from Hungary. She was just 16, a really enthusiastic dancer and gymnast, |
| 0:57.0 | when she was taken with her family to Auschwitz. She is now 92. In 2018 she published a memoir about her experiences and how they |
| 1:06.8 | shaped her life. It's an excellent book called The Choice. Tina De Healey |
| 1:11.5 | asked her what happened when she and her family got to the camp in Poland. |
| 1:16.0 | My father was separated immediately and my mom and my older sister Magda, who likes to be called Magdalena, is alive and well. |
| 1:28.0 | She lives in Baltimore. |
| 1:30.0 | She is going to tell you that she's 97 years old? |
| 1:35.0 | No, she's going to tell you she is 96 years old. |
| 1:39.0 | Right. |
| 1:40.0 | She shavish. |
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