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  1. 0:21all right so it's posting now
  2. 0:25and i'm going to record here as a backup
  3. 0:31i'm gonna let everyone in and we'll
  4. 0:33begin in just a moment as soon as
  5. 0:34everyone's in the room
  6. 0:50good morning there's just a few more
  7. 0:51people coming in the room we'll begin in
  8. 0:53just a moment
  9. 1:01well hello everyone my name is rachel
  10. 1:04lucy hitt
  11. 1:05and on behalf of the holocaust memorial
  12. 1:07resource and education
  13. 1:09center of florida i'm very pleased to
  14. 1:11welcome you here for another session of
  15. 1:13in my own words
  16. 1:15um today we are very very um
  17. 1:18pleased to share some special guests
  18. 1:20with you we have
  19. 1:21tali dippold as as well as dr
  20. 1:25edith eager here with us um i'll be
  21. 1:28turning the floor over to them in just a
  22. 1:30moment
  23. 1:30but i wanted to make sure that you all
  24. 1:32know um just a couple things we will be
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  38. 2:00listening um enjoyment we are
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  40. 2:06we highly encourage if you have any
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  45. 2:16towards the end of the
  46. 2:18the session we're going to get to as
  47. 2:19many questions as possible
  48. 2:22so with that i'm actually going to
  49. 2:23introduce tally to you who will then
  50. 2:26introduce dr eager tally dippold is the
  51. 2:29associate director
  52. 2:31of the stan greenspun center for peace
  53. 2:33and social justice
  54. 2:35at queen's university of charlotte she
  55. 2:38served as the executive director of the
  56. 2:40levine
  57. 2:41judaic library and resource center at
  58. 2:43shalom park
  59. 2:45she graduated laude with a bs in
  60. 2:48hospitality management from the
  61. 2:49university of new hampshire
  62. 2:51and graduated as class valedictorian
  63. 2:54with an ms
  64. 2:54in genocide and holocaust studies from
  65. 2:57gratz college
  66. 2:59tally decided to take her passion for
  67. 3:00storytelling customer service
  68. 3:03and empathy and pursue her lifelong
  69. 3:05passion for holocaust
  70. 3:07and human rights education during the
  71. 3:10past decade she has traveled extensively
  72. 3:12throughout eastern europe
  73. 3:13and participated in numerous educational
  74. 3:16opportunities
  75. 3:17including the ushmm belfor conference
  76. 3:20the holocaust and jewish resistance
  77. 3:23teacher program
  78. 3:24as well as the hillel international
  79. 3:26professionals heritage study tour in
  80. 3:28poland
  81. 3:30she serves as an active member of the
  82. 3:32north carolina council on holocaust
  83. 3:34since
  84. 3:352013 and serves on the executive board
  85. 3:38of the association of holocaust
  86. 3:39organizations
  87. 3:40since january of 2019. tally also
  88. 3:44co-teaches a college class
  89. 3:48on preserving memory in the digital age
  90. 3:50that culminates in a two-week study tour
  91. 3:52in poland
  92. 3:53where she leads a group in cemetery
  93. 3:55restoration work
  94. 3:57she considers herself a 3g as
  95. 4:00all four of her grandparents are
  96. 4:02holocaust survivors
  97. 4:04talia's a native of jerusalem enjoys
  98. 4:07traveling
  99. 4:08and sharing her stories tally i'm
  100. 4:10pleased to pass it over to you
  101. 4:13thank you so much rachel i'm thrilled to
  102. 4:15be here
  103. 4:16and i am thrilled to introduce the
  104. 4:18reason that we are all here to get to
  105. 4:20spend some time
  106. 4:21with dr edith eva eager first a huge
  107. 4:25thank you to the holocaust memorial
  108. 4:27resource
  109. 4:28and education center of florida and
  110. 4:30thank you to rachel
  111. 4:31stevens serena and lisa we are thrilled
  112. 4:34to join you today
  113. 4:35so moving on to dr edith eva ever
  114. 4:40edith is a native of hungary she was
  115. 4:43just a teenager
  116. 4:44in 1944 when she experienced one of the
  117. 4:47worst evils the human race has ever
  118. 4:50known
  119. 4:51as a jew living in nazi-occupied eastern
  120. 4:53europe
  121. 4:54she and her family were sent to
  122. 4:56auschwitz
  123. 4:57it was her bravery and her uh
  124. 5:01resilience that kept her and her sister
  125. 5:03alive
  126. 5:05towards the end of the war she was moved
  127. 5:06to austria and on may 4th
  128. 5:091945 she was liberated
  129. 5:14after the war edith moved to
  130. 5:16czechoslovakia where she met the man
  131. 5:18that she would marry
  132. 5:20and in 1949 she immigrated to
  133. 5:23america she received numerous degrees
  134. 5:26in 1969 in psychology from the
  135. 5:29university of texas
  136. 5:30el paso and she pursued her doctoral
  137. 5:33internship at the william beaumont army
  138. 5:35medical center
  139. 5:36at fort lewis texas she's a prolific
  140. 5:40author i have one of her books right
  141. 5:42behind me in my background
  142. 5:44she has an incredible new book out that
  143. 5:46i highly recommend
  144. 5:48that we'll discuss later and
  145. 5:51she's a she has a clinical practice in
  146. 5:53la jolla california where she joins us
  147. 5:55today
  148. 5:56and she holds a faculty appointment at
  149. 5:58the university of california
  150. 5:59san diego she's appeared on numerous
  151. 6:02television programs cnn
  152. 6:04the oprah winfrey show and she was the
  153. 6:07primary subject
  154. 6:08of a holocaust documentary that appeared
  155. 6:10on dutch
  156. 6:11national television i am extremely
  157. 6:14fortunate that i've had the opportunity
  158. 6:16to spend time with her
  159. 6:18last year and early this year and the
  160. 6:21lessons that i learned from edie will
  161. 6:23stay with me
  162. 6:24forever and a quick shameless plug that
  163. 6:27in
  164. 6:27april of 2021 we will be releasing
  165. 6:30a documentary that shares many of her
  166. 6:34stories with the world and without
  167. 6:35further ado i would love to
  168. 6:37welcome dr edith eva eager
  169. 6:42thank you so so much as you were
  170. 6:46introducing me it reminded me that
  171. 6:49i was on the advisory committee for
  172. 6:52the veterans administration and as such
  173. 6:56i would go to washington
  174. 6:58and every morning we would pass the
  175. 7:00holocaust museum
  176. 7:02and i said to myself i've been there
  177. 7:04done that
  178. 7:05but after six years i arrived in
  179. 7:09on sunday and i thought okay well maybe
  180. 7:12it's time
  181. 7:13so i went to the holocaust museum i
  182. 7:15don't know if you've been there
  183. 7:17but they they take you to the fourth
  184. 7:20floor
  185. 7:21and i was looking for the gis because i
  186. 7:24was liberated
  187. 7:26by the 71st infantry and you know what i
  188. 7:29found
  189. 7:30a man who liberated me
  190. 7:34uh recently recently just now
  191. 7:38on 60 minutes and
  192. 7:41and so we have a wonderful relationship
  193. 7:44and
  194. 7:44he was 18 and i was 17 when we were
  195. 7:48liberated
  196. 7:49so i uh i like to also tell you
  197. 7:53that it's very important
  198. 7:56especially when i speak to the military
  199. 7:59and the churches as well that
  200. 8:03unfortunately genocide is still
  201. 8:06with us as we speak but never
  202. 8:10in the history of mankind such a
  203. 8:13scientific
  204. 8:14and systematic annihilation of people
  205. 8:17existed
  206. 8:18when 15 highly educated people
  207. 8:22that comes from highly educated people i
  208. 8:24must say that
  209. 8:26because i'm very interested what
  210. 8:29teachers are teaching
  211. 8:31not what to think but how to think
  212. 8:34and to question authority i like
  213. 8:37young people and i want to be a good
  214. 8:39role model to them
  215. 8:41so what happened that after one day
  216. 8:45they celebrated they can put 30
  217. 8:49000 jewish people into the oven in one
  218. 8:52day and i am part of that final
  219. 8:56solution of eichmann
  220. 8:59so just that for the introduction
  221. 9:02and yes i was 16 years old i was
  222. 9:05in love my boyfriend and i were going to
  223. 9:09go to palestine
  224. 9:11and we belong to the bataar and we're
  225. 9:14gonna go
  226. 9:14and fight and we're gonna go to israel
  227. 9:18and we had this enthusiasm we had
  228. 9:21meaning
  229. 9:22in our lives unfortunately he was killed
  230. 9:25a day
  231. 9:26before liberation so i'm 93 years old i
  232. 9:30have three children
  233. 9:32five grandchildren and seven great
  234. 9:34grandsons
  235. 9:36and that's my best revenge to hitler
  236. 9:39that was beautiful edie and i will
  237. 9:41mention that the
  238. 9:43um liberator who you recently met will
  239. 9:46also be part of the documentaries you'll
  240. 9:48have a chance to see edie interact with
  241. 9:50uh with the liberator which is
  242. 9:52remarkable so we want to focus
  243. 9:54on the current day because edie always
  244. 9:57looks forward but for a moment i'd love
  245. 9:59to take a lens
  246. 10:00looking backwards and i'd love for you
  247. 10:02to share a little bit
  248. 10:04about your childhood in hungary your
  249. 10:06parents and siblings
  250. 10:08and then how things changed rapidly
  251. 10:12in your life at that young age
  252. 10:15i have this disbelief
  253. 10:19feeling or faith that maybe god
  254. 10:23makes a decision about the kind of
  255. 10:26life we're going to be put here into
  256. 10:29this world for it's kind of planting a
  257. 10:33seed
  258. 10:34and then how i will watch it grow that's
  259. 10:37why i tell people
  260. 10:38are you a good mommy to you because just
  261. 10:41how frog is self-care you know that
  262. 10:44you've got to really see everything
  263. 10:46begins with you we're born alone we die
  264. 10:49and
  265. 10:50there's something in between birth and
  266. 10:52that called
  267. 10:53life and that do you live a lifestyle
  268. 10:56that means
  269. 10:57you get up in the morning you look in
  270. 10:59the mirror you honor yourself
  271. 11:02and then and you decide the kind of day
  272. 11:05that you will have because what you
  273. 11:07think
  274. 11:08you create so i was born into a very
  275. 11:12talented family
  276. 11:13my parents had two beautiful girls and
  277. 11:16of course i
  278. 11:17wanted a son and i came along
  279. 11:21and i think god put me in that family
  280. 11:25because my two sisters blindfolded me
  281. 11:28when they took me for a walk because i
  282. 11:31became
  283. 11:32cross-side when i was three years old
  284. 11:35my mother looked at me very seriously
  285. 11:38and said
  286. 11:38i quote i'm glad that you have brains
  287. 11:42because you have no looks
  288. 11:44so i tell i get the reason i'm telling
  289. 11:47you that i'm not angry at my mom
  290. 11:50but we do carry with us sometimes the
  291. 11:52message is
  292. 11:53that we we received in our
  293. 11:56childhood and then believe what we
  294. 11:58learned
  295. 12:00um you can rewrite your script you know
  296. 12:03and uh i am telling you my mom
  297. 12:07gave me an opportunity to become a very
  298. 12:10highly and very educated teenager i have
  299. 12:14my own book club
  300. 12:16and here i am now dr edith eva eager
  301. 12:20at the university of
  302. 12:23school i i
  303. 12:27now guide the residents
  304. 12:31these are 30 residents and the subject
  305. 12:34is
  306. 12:35now dying and
  307. 12:39and i think we die the way we live
  308. 12:42and it's very good this time to be
  309. 12:45interested
  310. 12:46more in loving than being loved
  311. 12:51and so i hope that my talk today will
  312. 12:54give you an opportunity to give
  313. 12:56to the claim you would in a sense as i
  314. 13:00did when i returned to auschwitz
  315. 13:02tell us a little bit edie about your
  316. 13:04mother we'd love to hear about your
  317. 13:06mother and your sisters
  318. 13:07and the process that that unfortunately
  319. 13:10changed
  320. 13:10your existence at that time
  321. 13:14my mother helped me to read going with
  322. 13:16the wind
  323. 13:18so today i'm going to tell you are you a
  324. 13:22perfectionist
  325. 13:23and if you are you're going to
  326. 13:25procrastinate
  327. 13:27and it reminds me of
  328. 13:31in going with the wind when she said
  329. 13:34uh
  330. 13:38you know it's the war that and people
  331. 13:41are killing each other
  332. 13:43and she says i'll think about it
  333. 13:46tomorrow
  334. 13:48so if you procrastinate
  335. 13:51chances are you want to look at whether
  336. 13:53you are the perfectionist
  337. 13:55that means you have to do everything
  338. 13:57just right
  339. 13:58and my granddaughter did that and she
  340. 14:01was in a very
  341. 14:02special class when the iq started at 145
  342. 14:06and then she was erasing everything
  343. 14:11a million times and the teacher called
  344. 14:14her
  345. 14:14while that little red caboose
  346. 14:17and so she was ready to leave the class
  347. 14:21because she didn't think that she was
  348. 14:26able to cut the mustard in this class
  349. 14:30and this is the first time i told
  350. 14:34my precious lindsay about auschwitz
  351. 14:37and what i have discovered and not to
  352. 14:40allow a teacher
  353. 14:42to define who she was that she's
  354. 14:44beautiful
  355. 14:45so when she went to high school
  356. 14:48and was time to write for colleges
  357. 14:51she wrote her autobiography and the
  358. 14:54title was
  359. 14:56when the engine be and then when the
  360. 15:00uh caboose became an engine
  361. 15:04and so i i love to work with young
  362. 15:07people
  363. 15:08they are the future and i keep telling
  364. 15:11them that they
  365. 15:12are the the ambassadors for peace
  366. 15:17and so my mom was
  367. 15:21teaching me a lot uh she took me to the
  368. 15:25opera
  369. 15:26and uh in the kettle car
  370. 15:29she hugged me and she said
  371. 15:32and i quote her when especially speak to
  372. 15:35the children
  373. 15:37she said honey we don't know where we're
  374. 15:39going
  375. 15:40we don't know what's going to happen
  376. 15:42just remember
  377. 15:44no one can take away from you what you
  378. 15:46put here in your own mind
  379. 15:48and that's exactly what happened
  380. 15:51everything was taken away from me
  381. 15:53except i had my sister and i had my mind
  382. 15:58magda my father was a tailor
  383. 16:02who became a couturier and she looked at
  384. 16:06me
  385. 16:06and said when you grow up you're going
  386. 16:10to be the best dressed kid in town
  387. 16:13and guess what i am
  388. 16:19yes i am i am i am
  389. 16:22you know the dress that i took to
  390. 16:25auschwitz with me
  391. 16:27i have a picture of it it had two bows
  392. 16:31on it and then it was time for dr
  393. 16:35mengele to go to the left and go to the
  394. 16:38right
  395. 16:39i know he took a little while to watch
  396. 16:42my pose
  397. 16:43and i always wondered is this that maybe
  398. 16:46he decided that
  399. 16:48maybe maybe i just sent here to leave i
  400. 16:51don't know
  401. 16:52i don't know but i've been thinking a
  402. 16:55great deal
  403. 16:56about how can i tell people
  404. 17:00about not recovery but discovery
  405. 17:04tell us about your discovery at
  406. 17:06auschwitz what happened when you arrived
  407. 17:08there and who you were with
  408. 17:10and then the discoveries that you made
  409. 17:11during your time there
  410. 17:13i i since i'm a teacher you know i study
  411. 17:16a
  412. 17:17and han selig got the nobel prize
  413. 17:22about the stress studies that anything
  414. 17:25stressful that happens to us
  415. 17:28we have two automatic responses be there
  416. 17:30fight or flee
  417. 17:32when i arrived in the other side called
  418. 17:35viet canal
  419. 17:40it didn't work because if you touch the
  420. 17:43guards you were shot and many many girls
  421. 17:47were shot right in front of me
  422. 17:50so to fight it didn't work to flee
  423. 17:53didn't work either because if you
  424. 17:55touched the ward wires
  425. 17:56you were electrocuted and yes i saw the
  426. 18:00bodies so what i'm bringing to you today
  427. 18:05to find out actually what my ballet
  428. 18:09master told me that god built me in such
  429. 18:13a
  430. 18:14magnificent way he said to me all
  431. 18:17ecstasy
  432. 18:18comes from within you and i thought
  433. 18:21what is that word i never understood
  434. 18:24that word
  435. 18:25but i discovered that when nothing comes
  436. 18:28from the outside
  437. 18:29you discover your inner resources
  438. 18:32and the more you suffer
  439. 18:36the stronger you become
  440. 18:39and that's what i bring you to be able
  441. 18:42to
  442. 18:43think about your thinking and pay
  443. 18:46attention
  444. 18:47what you're paying attention to and this
  445. 18:50is december this
  446. 18:51is the time uh to make a plan
  447. 18:55what you're gonna take with you for next
  448. 18:57year what you're gonna leave behind
  449. 19:00jewish people have a wonderful way to
  450. 19:03really celebrate life by knowing
  451. 19:07that our ancestors didn't have it as
  452. 19:10good as we did
  453. 19:13and they never gave up i carried that
  454. 19:16blood
  455. 19:17i carried that blood especially in young
  456. 19:20people
  457. 19:21to tell them look at your birth
  458. 19:23certificate
  459. 19:24life is not easy there is no guarantee
  460. 19:27there
  461. 19:27is no certainty that is probability
  462. 19:33thank you how long were you in the
  463. 19:35birkenau camp
  464. 19:37and during that time what are some of
  465. 19:38the personal lessons that you took
  466. 19:40from that period i
  467. 19:44i think what was unfortunately
  468. 19:48that we experienced today too that we
  469. 19:51didn't know what's going to happen
  470. 19:53next when i took a shower
  471. 19:57when i took a shower we didn't know
  472. 20:00whether
  473. 20:00uh water is it's gonna come out or gas
  474. 20:04four o'clock in the morning we stood and
  475. 20:07uh
  476. 20:08and um and um
  477. 20:11we didn't know what's going to happen
  478. 20:14today
  479. 20:15my sister meg there was the pretty one
  480. 20:17in the family
  481. 20:19my sister clara was the child prodigy
  482. 20:22many people didn't even know i existed
  483. 20:26so when we're completely shaven my
  484. 20:29beautiful magda looked at me and said
  485. 20:33how do i look hungarian women are very
  486. 20:37vain i want you to know that too
  487. 20:39so i had a choice then i like to bring
  488. 20:42the bed and then
  489. 20:43to the here and now because anything i
  490. 20:46say i lived it so
  491. 20:49i had a choice as you had now whether
  492. 20:52you pay attention what you lost
  493. 20:54or what is still there
  494. 20:59so magda was there with the ball head
  495. 21:02and i told her i realized i am hermit
  496. 21:07i said to her mother you have beautiful
  497. 21:09eyes
  498. 21:10and you know what i did see it when you
  499. 21:12had your hair all over the place
  500. 21:15so today i asked people if you say
  501. 21:17anything to anyone
  502. 21:19ask yourselves which people are very
  503. 21:21good at talking to themselves
  504. 21:23uh ask yourself
  505. 21:26is it kind is it really important is it
  506. 21:30necessary
  507. 21:32because god gave us two ears and one
  508. 21:35mouth
  509. 21:36so we can listen more and talk less
  510. 21:41and so that's how we entered our shreds
  511. 21:45can you tell us about the in the
  512. 21:48interaction with
  513. 21:49dr mengele i was just going to tell you
  514. 21:52that
  515. 21:53he came to the barracks and wanted to
  516. 21:55know
  517. 21:56who can entertain him and the girls who
  518. 21:59knew me well
  519. 22:01i was the one who danced the hungarian
  520. 22:04shardash for the president who came 40
  521. 22:09so they just drew me in front of him and
  522. 22:12he says dance for me
  523. 22:15and i closed my eyes
  524. 22:18and i pretended that the music was
  525. 22:20tchaikovsky
  526. 22:21and i was dancing the romaine juliet at
  527. 22:24the budapest opera
  528. 22:26house i can still picture myself now and
  529. 22:29i knew the routine
  530. 22:30and i start with a high kick i can still
  531. 22:33do the high kick for you
  532. 22:35i start with a high kick and i
  533. 22:38go up with my left foot and i go down
  534. 22:41to a split right away you know and he
  535. 22:44just was
  536. 22:46very very taken by the way
  537. 22:50i was dancing and i was dancing for my
  538. 22:53life
  539. 22:55and so i was begging guys banging one
  540. 22:58god please
  541. 22:59don't don't be choose me to be the next
  542. 23:02one
  543. 23:03because he was choosing who to take to
  544. 23:05the gas chamber
  545. 23:07and so you never knew what's going to
  546. 23:09happen
  547. 23:10next so instead of fight or flee
  548. 23:13we had to learn how to accept
  549. 23:17and and and and i said to myself if i
  550. 23:22survived today
  551. 23:23then tomorrow i'll be free i'm gonna
  552. 23:26meet my boyfriend and
  553. 23:30i'm going to meet my boyfriend and i'm
  554. 23:32going to show him
  555. 23:34because he told me i have beautiful eyes
  556. 23:36and i have beautiful hands
  557. 23:39and dr michael when i was done he gave
  558. 23:42me a piece of bread
  559. 23:45now i had a choice then to get the bread
  560. 23:48and and garble it up
  561. 23:51but you know what thank god i climbed up
  562. 23:54i was on the top
  563. 23:55and i shared my bread and all i can tell
  564. 23:59you when i was in a death march
  565. 24:02going from uh from
  566. 24:05uh in austria um mud house
  567. 24:08from mount house and to gunt kirchen
  568. 24:11when you stopped you were
  569. 24:12shot i revisited that place every place
  570. 24:16including auschwitz and uh
  571. 24:19and i was about to stop
  572. 24:22and you know the girls that i shared the
  573. 24:24bread with
  574. 24:26they came and they formed a chat with
  575. 24:28their
  576. 24:29arms i'm gonna show it to you and they
  577. 24:32carried me
  578. 24:33so i wouldn't die all we had was each
  579. 24:36other
  580. 24:37then and all we have is each other now
  581. 24:45beautiful thank you can you share a
  582. 24:47little bit about the liberation you
  583. 24:48mentioned the death march
  584. 24:51tell us a little bit about liberation
  585. 24:55yes my liberation
  586. 24:58has surely uh when i was an oprah
  587. 25:03um and she asked me
  588. 25:07and i said you know i was among the dead
  589. 25:10and somehow i felt a hand
  590. 25:14somebody is is touching my hand
  591. 25:17and i looked up and i saw a big lip
  592. 25:22and i never saw a man of color
  593. 25:25so she looked up too and she said
  594. 25:29was he black yes
  595. 25:34and then i saw tears in the eye and
  596. 25:37eminem's in the hand
  597. 25:39today when i go to schools they give me
  598. 25:43a lot of
  599. 25:44m m's my closet is filled
  600. 25:47with eminem's don't send me eminem's
  601. 25:50please
  602. 25:52and and that's how i was liberated what
  603. 25:56is important
  604. 25:58as a psychologist i tell you
  605. 26:03that we were liberated
  606. 26:07and i studied with eric from i always
  607. 26:11went to the originals
  608. 26:13and he has a wonderful book escape from
  609. 26:16freedom
  610. 26:18see when you're free you're responsible
  611. 26:23and we were free and we would go through
  612. 26:26the gate
  613. 26:28i didn't because i was too weak but i
  614. 26:31was observing
  615. 26:33people coming back and sitting down
  616. 26:37and this is dr seligman's literature and
  617. 26:41positive psychology
  618. 26:43that is called the learned helplessness
  619. 26:47and when i was helping wedded wives
  620. 26:50to build transitional living centers
  621. 26:53this is what i found out that the
  622. 26:55husband brainwashes his wife
  623. 26:58that without him she is nothing and she
  624. 27:01believes it
  625. 27:04so he beats her she leaves and anywhere
  626. 27:08from seven
  627. 27:08to 15 times she keeps coming back
  628. 27:13so you have to question authority
  629. 27:16rather than ever blindly adhere to
  630. 27:19authority ahmadi jidad said
  631. 27:23that the holocaust did not exist
  632. 27:28i don't think he read plato
  633. 27:33and plato said remember i told you i was
  634. 27:36a very early teenager
  635. 27:38i read plato and he said you have to
  636. 27:41think of a lie
  637. 27:43and it has to be a big one and then you
  638. 27:46repeat it
  639. 27:46repeat it until people believe it
  640. 27:50question authority are bang young people
  641. 27:55rather than ever blindly adhering to
  642. 28:00authority
  643. 28:02there's a book by adorno that's called
  644. 28:05the authoritarian personality
  645. 28:08and he talks about the california f
  646. 28:11scale
  647. 28:12f stands for fascist and he believed
  648. 28:15that small town usa
  649. 28:17is right for fascism because they
  650. 28:20blindly adhere
  651. 28:22to authority so our biggest enemy
  652. 28:26is really very important
  653. 28:29to um to have
  654. 28:34a way of thinking that you blindly
  655. 28:37adhere to authority
  656. 28:39rather than question authority
  657. 28:44edith i wanted to ask you about your you
  658. 28:47mentioned that you returned
  659. 28:48back to the various locations and i know
  660. 28:51that was a very
  661. 28:52transformative experience many survivors
  662. 28:54do not choose to go back
  663. 28:56can you tell us about your decision to
  664. 28:58go back and what you
  665. 29:00uh learned during that during that
  666. 29:02period during that trip
  667. 29:04yes uh actually uh i was beginning to
  668. 29:08work with
  669. 29:09post-traumatic stress disorder it's not
  670. 29:12a disorder it's a reaction to a loss
  671. 29:15you know it's it's grief it's and we
  672. 29:18pathologize too much
  673. 29:20but i had these two paraplegics and one
  674. 29:23of
  675. 29:24them would be in a kind of a fetal
  676. 29:26position why me
  677. 29:27why me and blaming blaming
  678. 29:31god country and conversely
  679. 29:36people sent to god sends people my way
  680. 29:40i think they don't come to me you were
  681. 29:42sent to me too
  682. 29:44the other one is in a wheelchair and he
  683. 29:46says the following
  684. 29:48hey doc i am the luckiest
  685. 29:52man i am in a wheelchair
  686. 29:56and now i can see my children's eyes
  687. 29:59much closer
  688. 30:01i can see the flowers
  689. 30:04and i'm there with a white coat
  690. 30:09and it says dr eager department of
  691. 30:12psychiatry
  692. 30:14and i am feeling like the biggest
  693. 30:18imposter in the world
  694. 30:21i went to school i went to school i went
  695. 30:23to school i
  696. 30:24became a diplomat and this that because
  697. 30:28i told them the further i ran away the
  698. 30:31more i'm going to forget that
  699. 30:34and that's when i decided to go back to
  700. 30:36auschwitz
  701. 30:38knowing that i cannot take them further
  702. 30:41than i have gone myself
  703. 30:44so if i wish i could meet those two
  704. 30:46vietnam veterans
  705. 30:48that gave me the idea
  706. 30:52that i must give myself permission
  707. 30:56to go back to their clients then and
  708. 30:58look at the lion in the face
  709. 31:00and reclaim my innocence and assign the
  710. 31:03shame and give to the perpetrator
  711. 31:06you cannot have peace until you go
  712. 31:08through the rage
  713. 31:10so don't cover garlic with chocolate it
  714. 31:13doesn't take
  715. 31:14i know it doesn't do you any good so
  716. 31:17when i asked my mag dad to come with me
  717. 31:20because i wanted to honor my mother
  718. 31:23because exactly what happened what she
  719. 31:25told me
  720. 31:27and i told her you know we lost our
  721. 31:29family and we never went to a funeral
  722. 31:32and she told me i'm an idiot and i'm a
  723. 31:35masochist
  724. 31:37we went through the same experience so
  725. 31:40there is a difference between reacting
  726. 31:43or responding
  727. 31:47if someone tells you you you're gonna be
  728. 31:50dumped on
  729. 31:51that's what i teach children that's what
  730. 31:53the bully does you are stupid you you
  731. 31:56you
  732. 31:56the minute you hear the word you you
  733. 31:59take a deep breath
  734. 32:01and take relaxation and say to yourself
  735. 32:05the more they talk the more relaxed i
  736. 32:07become
  737. 32:08you take the negative stimuli
  738. 32:10immediately turn it into positive
  739. 32:12and the longer they talk the more you
  740. 32:16practice
  741. 32:16your low frustration tolerance level
  742. 32:20so i'm not a shrink i'm a stretch
  743. 32:23and i'm stretching your comfort zone
  744. 32:26today
  745. 32:27knowing that this is temporary
  746. 32:31you don't have to like it you don't have
  747. 32:35to be
  748. 32:36really anything other than telling
  749. 32:38yourself
  750. 32:39i don't like it it's inconvenient and
  751. 32:42it's temporary and i can't survive it
  752. 32:45so give me the butt and i give you an
  753. 32:47end
  754. 32:49yes and fedora yes and rather than
  755. 32:52yes but i don't know if your mother ever
  756. 32:55told you that you're a beautiful girl
  757. 32:58but you're fat and but you're pimply
  758. 33:03what happens when you say but
  759. 33:07you only think of what you hear after
  760. 33:10the birth
  761. 33:11so i tell especially parents don't say
  762. 33:13yes but
  763. 33:15or your husband
  764. 33:18men like compliments and the best thing
  765. 33:21is to watch filler in a room
  766. 33:23when she knows that the husband needs to
  767. 33:27know
  768. 33:28that he is the head of the family and he
  769. 33:31makes all the decisions
  770. 33:33in this family and guess who does she
  771. 33:36doesn't have any ego needs she doesn't
  772. 33:39compete
  773. 33:40uh or dominate she
  774. 33:44cooperates and works alongside of the
  775. 33:47man
  776. 33:48and that's what the pioneer women did in
  777. 33:50america
  778. 33:53they went together as a team
  779. 33:57and i like the modern marriages when
  780. 34:00they both get up in the morning
  781. 34:02and they both cook together and
  782. 34:06wash the car together and they work as a
  783. 34:09team
  784. 34:10all my i have two daughters
  785. 34:13and myself we are i
  786. 34:16am a working mother
  787. 34:20children don't do what we say they do
  788. 34:22what they see
  789. 34:25i beg man not to ever raise his voice
  790. 34:31because the child suffers from ptsd
  791. 34:35the child startles i do
  792. 34:38i still do i see a man in uniform
  793. 34:42i i was stopped and given a ticket
  794. 34:45and a 25-mile zone i i drove 40 miles
  795. 34:51and i looked at the policeman and i
  796. 34:55begged him not to give me a ticket
  797. 34:58and and he gave me a ticket and you know
  798. 35:00what
  799. 35:01i collapsed and there were two policemen
  800. 35:05and none of them helped me to get up
  801. 35:09and i told my daughter a beautiful
  802. 35:11brilliant psychologist
  803. 35:13what happened and you know what she said
  804. 35:17mother it's only money
  805. 35:21it wasn't the money so you see people
  806. 35:25say to me you overcame no i did not
  807. 35:29i'm reminded almost every day
  808. 35:32i went to have steak and i was
  809. 35:36on cobblestones immediately i saw the
  810. 35:39picture
  811. 35:39of children who were spitting at us as
  812. 35:42we were walking
  813. 35:45and calling us pigs so don't
  814. 35:48know i don't know that word overcome i
  815. 35:51came to terms with it
  816. 36:02i can tell you i was definitely sent to
  817. 36:04you and i quote you
  818. 36:05all the time one of my absolute favorite
  819. 36:07lines that you say
  820. 36:09that i tell my husband on a daily basis
  821. 36:12is
  822. 36:13would you be married to you that was my
  823. 36:16pearls of wisdom one of the best
  824. 36:18atheisms that i have i love that
  825. 36:20so i wanted to and the other one is when
  826. 36:23they do childhood ends
  827. 36:26exactly i wanted to focus a little bit
  828. 36:29on the period after the war on you
  829. 36:32arriving back
  830. 36:33arriving to america you're having
  831. 36:36children
  832. 36:37and i want to incorporate into this one
  833. 36:38of the questions that came in
  834. 36:41if you can talk a little bit about
  835. 36:43intergenerational trauma
  836. 36:45and how survivors pass on or don't pass
  837. 36:49on some of this trauma on a cellular
  838. 36:51level
  839. 36:52to the next generation yes
  840. 36:56if you are a child of a survivor
  841. 37:00i had a two-year-old little girl
  842. 37:03the two-year-old little girl becomes the
  843. 37:06parent's
  844. 37:06parent she introduces you to peanut
  845. 37:10butter
  846. 37:11she introduces you to tuna fish that
  847. 37:15you never saw before and most of all she
  848. 37:19teaches you
  849. 37:20how to or he teaches you how to speak
  850. 37:23english
  851. 37:24and uh i so my little girl
  852. 37:28did that and guess what
  853. 37:32we were very very poor i worked in a
  854. 37:34factory doing piecework
  855. 37:37for seven cents a dozen so the faster i
  856. 37:40worked
  857. 37:41the the more seven cents i got
  858. 37:45and my husband ended up in a tb hospital
  859. 37:49and it was in november when she came
  860. 37:53from the wonderful mrs bower
  861. 37:57a christian woman who took marion in and
  862. 38:00no charge
  863. 38:01and she said you have to buy it a turkey
  864. 38:04because thanksgiving is coming up
  865. 38:07so what we learned survivors
  866. 38:10is what to say or what not to say
  867. 38:14to the child i didn't say to marianne
  868. 38:17that i don't
  869. 38:18think i can buy a turkey because i don't
  870. 38:22have the money
  871. 38:24but i became a dancer and i went to a
  872. 38:27grocery store called schreiber
  873. 38:30i don't know whether they were jewish or
  874. 38:32german or both i don't know
  875. 38:34but i know that i i i know the guy
  876. 38:38was looking over me because i was
  877. 38:41checking out the prize
  878. 38:44so i passed the turkish and finally
  879. 38:47find a leader it's in my book
  880. 38:51a little chicken the smallest chicken
  881. 38:54and i gave him my money and he took 25
  882. 38:57cents
  883. 38:58and four pennies and people tell me you
  884. 39:01couldn't buy a chicken for 29 cents
  885. 39:04i bought a chicken and i know it was 29
  886. 39:07cents
  887. 39:07in 1949 the thing that also happened
  888. 39:12unfortunately
  889. 39:14that i survived nazi germany
  890. 39:18communist russia and i came to america
  891. 39:21and when i went to the bathroom one of
  892. 39:23them said
  893. 39:24colored that was a discovery
  894. 39:29don't forget the story about the turkey
  895. 39:31finish the story about the talk okay
  896. 39:34the third key uh
  897. 39:37story is that i
  898. 39:40took a bus and then another bus
  899. 39:44and another bus to go home to the
  900. 39:48to the backyard of a home
  901. 39:51that had a maids room where we lived
  902. 39:54that was our home
  903. 39:56and the people were jewish and they
  904. 39:59called us greener
  905. 40:00greener you know and they were telling
  906. 40:03me how
  907. 40:04how to um how to
  908. 40:09make a cake they didn't realize that i
  909. 40:12had the most
  910. 40:13wonderful astro hungarian pastry at home
  911. 40:17so you know they they put us in a box
  912. 40:20you know the greener and so
  913. 40:23anyway i did my choreography and and
  914. 40:26and i came in fired up totally fired up
  915. 40:30like i'm fired up now and i did the high
  916. 40:34kick and i said guess what
  917. 40:35we're gonna have a baby turkey
  918. 40:39and she went back to school i had a baby
  919. 40:41okay
  920. 40:42say she didn't know we were poor and i
  921. 40:45went into
  922. 40:47i went into a boutique shop
  923. 40:52see my father was the tailor who became
  924. 40:56a couturier and told me when i grew up
  925. 41:00i'll be the best dress gown in town
  926. 41:04and that's very true i do wear designers
  927. 41:08clothes
  928. 41:09but my little girl wore designers
  929. 41:12clothes too
  930. 41:14because i told the owner if you
  931. 41:19go down to 75 because i saw you have
  932. 41:2375 i want you to save it for me
  933. 41:28i never wanted my little girl to look
  934. 41:31poor even in high school i bought her
  935. 41:35pendleton skirts i remember that
  936. 41:39because i didn't want her to to not
  937. 41:42look like the best dressed girl in that
  938. 41:45classroom
  939. 41:46i i i wanted to assimilate
  940. 41:50too much because i didn't tell my
  941. 41:53children
  942. 41:55about auschwitz at all
  943. 41:59until i read men's search for meaning by
  944. 42:01viktor
  945. 42:02frankl and when i read that book i
  946. 42:06wanted to write 10 pages
  947. 42:08and i became a diplomate i did a 90th
  948. 42:12birthday
  949. 42:12a keynote speech for victor franco
  950. 42:17and and
  951. 42:20for many years people asked me to write
  952. 42:22a book and i would say
  953. 42:24i have nothing to say i have nothing to
  954. 42:26say
  955. 42:27until philip zimbardo from stanford told
  956. 42:31me
  957. 42:32i tell you what the survivors
  958. 42:36who are famous are all men we need the
  959. 42:40female voice
  960. 42:42and i am the female voice of victor
  961. 42:45franco
  962. 42:46in the choice
  963. 42:49wonderful and tell us about the other
  964. 42:52project that you have besides the choice
  965. 42:54which we all cherish and love
  966. 42:56tell us about your new project that
  967. 42:58you're working on and then we have a few
  968. 42:59questions that have come in that i'll
  969. 43:01ask you
  970. 43:02the gift the gift the gift came
  971. 43:05because i have beautiful beautiful
  972. 43:09people
  973. 43:09all over the world who said to me
  974. 43:13you're not done we need another book
  975. 43:15that is practical
  976. 43:18tell us what we can do and that's
  977. 43:21how the gift was born
  978. 43:25i give you 12 i was gonna give you 24
  979. 43:29and then i decided 12 is enough
  980. 43:32but if you want anything more i am full
  981. 43:36of it
  982. 43:36i uh i'm still studying i have yet to
  983. 43:40arrive
  984. 43:41i'm still in a climbing the mountain
  985. 43:44and i never stop climbing
  986. 43:48we love that message that's perfect can
  987. 43:50you tell us a little bit about your
  988. 43:52philosophy
  989. 43:52on forgiveness and if this has helped
  990. 43:55you you helped your patients
  991. 43:58i actually adhere to the hasidic
  992. 44:00philosophy
  993. 44:02that you look at everything from the
  994. 44:05positive perspective
  995. 44:07and and this is what i
  996. 44:10practice to be a realist rather than an
  997. 44:14idealist and forgiveness to me
  998. 44:18is not me forgiving you
  999. 44:22i don't have any godly powers just don't
  1000. 44:25even think about that
  1001. 44:27i think forgiveness is a gift that i
  1002. 44:30give myself
  1003. 44:32because if i would live in the fear and
  1004. 44:35the
  1005. 44:36hate i would still be a prisoner
  1006. 44:39of the past so i think i spell selfish
  1007. 44:43with a self-dash ish i want
  1008. 44:47my true self that i would never be the
  1009. 44:50hostage
  1010. 44:51or a prisoner of the past i never forget
  1011. 44:54what happened
  1012. 44:55i don't overcome it i came to terms with
  1013. 44:58it
  1014. 44:59and i call it my cherished wound
  1015. 45:04what took me was left in auschwitz it's
  1016. 45:07not the better part
  1017. 45:08i assure you but i think of that little
  1018. 45:12girl
  1019. 45:14who's grieving not what happened but
  1020. 45:16what didn't happen
  1021. 45:23beautiful i'd love to hear your thoughts
  1022. 45:25on what you would say to people
  1023. 45:28who think that the holocaust is a jewish
  1024. 45:30problem
  1025. 45:31instead of a human problem
  1026. 45:36yeah well you know when i went to jewish
  1027. 45:40schools as a child
  1028. 45:43and we came out of the school
  1029. 45:47children were spitting at me and they
  1030. 45:50called me a christ killer
  1031. 45:53that was before hitler
  1032. 45:58i hated christmas
  1033. 46:01i hated christmas and i did not know
  1034. 46:04that jesus was a poor jewish boy
  1035. 46:09i didn't know any of that ever
  1036. 46:12so it's very very important
  1037. 46:16that we all come perhaps from the house
  1038. 46:19of david
  1039. 46:20and we we go back to the originals
  1040. 46:25and what happened
  1041. 46:28as you know that when
  1042. 46:32the jews were on the desert
  1043. 46:36i think of 40 years that it took them
  1044. 46:41to go to that promised land and they
  1045. 46:44never gave up
  1046. 46:46and that's the blood i carry never ever
  1047. 46:50to give up
  1048. 46:51and then from that
  1049. 46:55came the state of israel
  1050. 47:01and that's what we have now you know
  1051. 47:04what
  1052. 47:04if you go to israel to the old age homes
  1053. 47:08people are smoking but
  1054. 47:11they have the best part it's not
  1055. 47:15turning you on it's helping with your
  1056. 47:18arthritis
  1057. 47:19and your pain yeah
  1058. 47:22we are the originals even even
  1059. 47:26anything nobel prize winners
  1060. 47:31just look at the nobel prize winner
  1061. 47:36the majority
  1062. 47:39i wanted to ask you about um your
  1063. 47:42decision to share your story so as you
  1064. 47:44know
  1065. 47:45my grandparents did not share their
  1066. 47:47story
  1067. 47:48and for a long time you didn't as well
  1068. 47:51and then you had a relationship you had
  1069. 47:53a connection
  1070. 47:54to victor frankel and his book man
  1071. 47:57search for meaning
  1072. 47:58can you tell us a little bit about his
  1073. 48:00influence on your work
  1074. 48:02and your relationship
  1075. 48:07my life have changed actually i was at
  1076. 48:10the university of texas and
  1077. 48:13and someone somehow found out that
  1078. 48:17i was in auschwitz and said you know you
  1079. 48:20got to read this book
  1080. 48:22and so i went home it was in the middle
  1081. 48:25of the night i was always in the library
  1082. 48:28i graduated comrade myself
  1083. 48:31and but i never showed up for my
  1084. 48:33graduation
  1085. 48:34because i said to myself that i don't
  1086. 48:37deserve it because i'm alive
  1087. 48:40i had tremendous survivors scared
  1088. 48:43so have you ever read a book that you
  1089. 48:45wanted to get 10 more pages for everyone
  1090. 48:49so i actually wrote
  1091. 48:53a little article and there were positive
  1092. 48:58psychology
  1093. 48:59people published it and someone sent it
  1094. 49:03that to victor franco and i got a letter
  1095. 49:08from vienna says victor franco
  1096. 49:12wants to get to know me and we met in
  1097. 49:15san diego at the international
  1098. 49:18university and that's how
  1099. 49:21i became a diplomat in logotherapy
  1100. 49:25i even demonstrated him and reagan's
  1101. 49:28bird guy
  1102. 49:31he was 90 years old i did a keynote
  1103. 49:34address
  1104. 49:35at the logo therapy conference and and
  1105. 49:38so he i tell you
  1106. 49:41um as the most wonderful man
  1107. 49:46that i admired he was climbing the
  1108. 49:49mountains to the arabs
  1109. 49:51in his seventies and when i met him he
  1110. 49:54was taking
  1111. 49:55flying lessons in his seventies amazing
  1112. 49:58really truly a renaissance man
  1113. 50:02thank you beautiful thank you i want you
  1114. 50:06i want you to know that for many many
  1115. 50:08people on this call
  1116. 50:09and in your community of thousands of
  1117. 50:11followers
  1118. 50:13you are their inspiration and you are
  1119. 50:15the one that they turn to and they want
  1120. 50:16more pages
  1121. 50:17of your book so i want to personally
  1122. 50:20thank you for so much of your
  1123. 50:22dedication and sharing your story and i
  1124. 50:24always like to leave
  1125. 50:26the last word to you giving your
  1126. 50:29message to the audience here and to many
  1127. 50:32generations who will hopefully get to
  1128. 50:34hear
  1129. 50:34your incredible wisdom and atheism that
  1130. 50:37i use on a daily basis
  1131. 50:40what can you tell us about how you live
  1132. 50:42your daily life that we can use as
  1133. 50:44inspiration because you are very
  1134. 50:46inspiring
  1135. 50:49there are three things that i do every
  1136. 50:52day with my patients and with myself as
  1137. 50:56well
  1138. 50:57is grieving feeling and healing
  1139. 51:01i have yet to arrive i climb and i sleep
  1140. 51:04and i climb and i sleep and i will never
  1141. 51:08stop climbing i don't believe in
  1142. 51:10retirement
  1143. 51:12i don't care about the chronological age
  1144. 51:16that just numbers it's gonna happen
  1145. 51:19anyway
  1146. 51:20i have a very very hopeful attitude
  1147. 51:24and i discovered that how to actually
  1148. 51:28change hatred into pity
  1149. 51:32and uh so there are two things i
  1150. 51:36live in a present i can only touch you
  1151. 51:39now
  1152. 51:40so i hope that you can risk and maybe
  1153. 51:43tell
  1154. 51:44someone that you like to get to know
  1155. 51:46them
  1156. 51:47and they may tell you that they're not
  1157. 51:49interested just remember
  1158. 51:52a rejection is an english word that
  1159. 51:55people make up
  1160. 51:56to express a feeling when you don't get
  1161. 51:59what you want
  1162. 52:00it's all in your expectation so do not
  1163. 52:03take
  1164. 52:04things personally if anything if
  1165. 52:06somebody calls your name
  1166. 52:08all you have to do put an eye in front
  1167. 52:10of it and they usually are talking about
  1168. 52:12themselves
  1169. 52:13and just say thank you a lot of thank
  1170. 52:16yous i say a lot of thank you
  1171. 52:19thank you for your opinion thank you for
  1172. 52:21your input
  1173. 52:22i don't deny someone else's throat
  1174. 52:26i would not tell armando that you're
  1175. 52:29wrong
  1176. 52:30because his mind is already made up and
  1177. 52:34and he didn't read later
  1178. 52:37so i i just don't judge
  1179. 52:40other people i i hope we can
  1180. 52:44recognize that the most obnoxious person
  1181. 52:47is your best teacher
  1182. 52:50and i took care of a 14 year old white
  1183. 52:53supremacy boy
  1184. 52:55and he never knew where i came from
  1185. 53:00and never knew my history
  1186. 53:05because he told me that it's time for
  1187. 53:08america to be white again
  1188. 53:10and he's gonna kill all the jews
  1189. 53:13and then over there using the n-word and
  1190. 53:16the cincos
  1191. 53:17and the muskins that was in texas
  1192. 53:21and i just told him tell me more because
  1193. 53:24god
  1194. 53:25i ask god what do i do with that god
  1195. 53:30you send me people and god told me
  1196. 53:33find the bigot in you
  1197. 53:36and i told god it's impossible
  1198. 53:40i joined the naacp i marched with martin
  1199. 53:43luther king
  1200. 53:44you know i kept going and god said find
  1201. 53:47a bigot in you
  1202. 53:50and then i looked at that little boy who
  1203. 53:53gave up
  1204. 53:53all his freedom to a man called david
  1205. 53:56koresh
  1206. 53:58in texas
  1207. 54:01they ended up bombing his place
  1208. 54:05okay and i had
  1209. 54:08three words tell me more
  1210. 54:11love is time t-i-m-e time
  1211. 54:14tell me more he never knew
  1212. 54:18if i would have reacted that's the
  1213. 54:21difference between reacting
  1214. 54:22and responding if i would have reacted i
  1215. 54:27would have dragged him
  1216. 54:28by his hair to the corner and i would
  1217. 54:32step on him and i tell him
  1218. 54:34how dare you talk to me like that my
  1219. 54:36mother went to the gas chamber
  1220. 54:40that's the way i would have reacted
  1221. 54:44but god told me to find a bigot
  1222. 54:48in me there is a hitler
  1223. 54:52and that is goodness and kindness
  1224. 54:55and peacefulness there is no love
  1225. 54:58without hate
  1226. 55:00there is no summer without winter and
  1227. 55:02there is no life without that
  1228. 55:05i hope you live a lifestyle every moment
  1229. 55:09is precious
  1230. 55:11and i as a survivor tell you
  1231. 55:14to me life is the most precious gift
  1232. 55:19that god has given me not only to
  1233. 55:22survive
  1234. 55:23but to be a guide to other people as you
  1235. 55:26can be a guide that people who stand on
  1236. 55:30your shoulder
  1237. 55:31can see further and that's what my wish
  1238. 55:35is
  1239. 55:36that the young people i carry
  1240. 55:40carry me with them and do everything
  1241. 55:44in their power that their children and
  1242. 55:46grandchildren
  1243. 55:48and great-grandchildren will never
  1244. 55:50experience
  1245. 55:51what i did i owe it to my parents
  1246. 55:55and one of the most beautiful jewish
  1247. 55:59gifts of god is the gift of memory that
  1248. 56:02we celebrate
  1249. 56:06thank you edie i want to tell you that
  1250. 56:08you are
  1251. 56:09for me and for many in this community
  1252. 56:11many on here you
  1253. 56:12are a gift and i carry your words with
  1254. 56:15me
  1255. 56:16on a regular basis you are
  1256. 56:19thank you for showing up please show up
  1257. 56:22for your children
  1258. 56:23show up for your grandchildren and
  1259. 56:27that is a foreign
  1260. 56:31i spent wonderful wonderful time with
  1261. 56:35you
  1262. 56:36shalom have a happy hanukkah christmas
  1263. 56:40holidays and pay attention what you're
  1264. 56:45going to hold into and what are you
  1265. 56:48going to let go of thank you edie stay
  1266. 56:52healthy and we're all sending you a lot
  1267. 56:54of love and happy holidays
  1268. 56:55i want to be healthy for you too thank
  1269. 56:58you
  1270. 57:00bye bye bye
  1271. 57:05thank you tally thank you dr eager
  1272. 57:08um honestly i also dr eager just wanted
  1273. 57:12to say i i typed this in the chat
  1274. 57:16um but i felt like every sentence that
  1275. 57:18was coming out of your mouth
  1276. 57:21felt like this treasure trove
  1277. 57:24of um guidance and wisdom and life
  1278. 57:27lessons
  1279. 57:28and i was seeing multiple people um
  1280. 57:31saying
  1281. 57:32similar things in the room and so i
  1282. 57:34wanted to thank you for that
  1283. 57:36and also know as you said you know share
  1284. 57:38with your children and your
  1285. 57:39grandchildren
  1286. 57:40i wanted you to know that there actually
  1287. 57:41were some students also
  1288. 57:43on this session as well so you were
  1289. 57:46sharing your message far and wide
  1290. 57:48and many of you that asked if this will
  1291. 57:52be recorded it absolutely has been
  1292. 57:54recorded
  1293. 57:54um it's available right now on facebook
  1294. 57:56um but we will be putting it on
  1295. 57:58our website as well a little bit later
  1296. 58:00today shortly after this
  1297. 58:02this program ends um and there will also
  1298. 58:04be information there
  1299. 58:06um on her books if you're interested in
  1300. 58:08purchasing them
  1301. 58:10um as well as you'll be seeing receiving
  1302. 58:12an email and also look in the chat
  1303. 58:14because we'll put the links there as
  1304. 58:15well
  1305. 58:16um to get any feedback from you we we
  1306. 58:19really um we would love to share any of
  1307. 58:22your feedback with
  1308. 58:24tally and dr eager as well as any ways
  1309. 58:27that we can um
  1310. 58:28meet the needs of our community and um
  1311. 58:31there are ways that we can
  1312. 58:32improve this um we definitely want to to
  1313. 58:35do that as well
  1314. 58:37and and lastly if you um
  1315. 58:40if you like these programs and you find
  1316. 58:43them as meaningful as as i do
  1317. 58:45especially this one please consider
  1318. 58:49making a gift um to the center so that
  1319. 58:52we can continue to provide these kinds
  1320. 58:54of programs to the community
  1321. 58:56at no cost accessibility is very
  1322. 58:59important for us
  1323. 59:00so thank you all very much for being
  1324. 59:02here again holly
  1325. 59:04wonderful job so nice to have you here
  1326. 59:07and
  1327. 59:07dr eager you are a gift thank you so
  1328. 59:10much for being here
  1329. 59:12have a wonderful day everyone thank you
  1330. 59:23you

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