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Holocaust survivor remembers
Nazi terrors of Auchwithz camp
It isn t important what happened to Edith Eger, but She worked in a factory, knew no English, but she sur-
it is important to prevent another Holocaust,” Edith vived, married, had three children, two grandchildren
Eger said, and earned a doctorate in psychology.
Eger is a consultant on human behavior, executive and But to remember the past is and was difficult, she said,
clinical director of the El Paso Center for Marital and She is developing a behavorial theory based on her ex-
Family Therapy, and a survivor of Auschwitz and five periences in Auschwitz and other camps, she said,
other Nazi concentration camps. Eger said she thinks people need to recognize they
have inner resources which they can call upon to conquer
She spoke April 6 at a meeting commerating fear, depression and external forces which many times
Holocaust Commemorative Week organized by the can’t be changed.
Jewish student organization, “I discovered my inner resources when I was able to
Hillel, and the Student Pro- see the Nazis in a human light and to turn hatred into pi-
grams Office. ty,” she said.
“I have not talked about “Even though I am surrounded with mortar, I am
the Holocaust to my freer than my captives,” she said quoting Henry David
children for over 25 years,” Thoreau.
she said, “and I ran from it Her mother had told her in the cattle car as they were
myself until I realized that being transported to Auschwitz that “everything can be
that part of my life has made taken away from us except what we have put in our
me more persevering, sen- head,” Eger said.
sitive, that I see life more She has decided to go back to Auschwitz this May to
precious, that I have more have an “experience of closure,” she said, and to tell her
compassion.” mother who died there she was right.
Eger, born and raised in “We can lock ourselves in our own concentration
Hungary, was 14 when the camps, and we don’t have to go to Auschwitz to know
Nazis arrested her family human suffering,” she said.
and sent them to Auschwitz There are positive aspects of suffering, Eger said, and
in May 1944. Her parents “we can look at any event in our lives — divorce, death,
and grandparents were sent the Holocaust, and use it as an excuse for not taking the
to the gas chambers, but she responsibility of directing our lives.”
Edith Eger and another sister were forc- Suffering is feeling, she explained. “Maybe we need to
ed to carry ammunition feel more rather than to feel good, and maybe not to run
across Germany. away from feelings or have them chemically reduced.”
Many fell and were shot, she said, but she and her It has taken her 28 years to think about some aspects
sister survived. A professor in Budapest hid her other of the Holocaust experience, she said.
sister who also survived. “I don’t live in Auschwitz,” she said, “but I know I
When the Americans liberated the camps in May 1945, couldn’t run from my past, and it was better to face my
a GI picked her up although she had been left for dead, fears rather than run from them.”
she said. She weighed 60 pounds, her back was broken, She added that there is no formula for a guaranteed
and she was suffering from numerous illnesses and good life
malnutrition. “Each of us is called upon to find her own unique way
She was brought back to health, met her future hus- of taking on life as a challenge,” she said.
band in a tuberculosis hospital in Czechslovakia, and The challenges are many.
eventually came to America penniless, sponsored by her Eger asked, “How can we form a human family so we
husband’s uncle. can survive on this planet?” — Rosemary Poplar
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Measles
Childhood ails
plague colleges
By Ed Ivey
Staff Writer
The percentage of childhood diseases appearing in
college-age persons is rising, making health care of-
ficials push for immunization in these age groups,
said Dr. Joseph R. Gurnick, director of the UT El
Paso Student Health Center.
There are several reasons for the reappearance of
childhood illnesses like measles and rubella, Gurnick
said. •
“In this age group, some people missed immuniza-
tion and got through school without it being required.
And if they were immunized, the early vaccines were
not as effective as present ones for many reasons,” he
said.
Gurnick, who has been at the University since
September, said close contact among people in this
category is another factor in the increase. He added
that the pool of people involved is becoming larger
percentage-wise, e
The appearance of childhood diseases in the post-
adolescent years is more serious than in children, he
said.
“The older you are, the more severe the illness is,
and the more chance there is of complications,” Gur-
nick said.
In measles, complications include measles
encephalitis and secondary infections such as related
pneumonia, he said. Such patients run the risk of han-
dicap or even death, he said.
Immunizations against measles, mumps, and
rubella are available free to UT El Paso students at
the center from 2 to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Students need to bring their immunization records
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