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Edith Eva Eger (née Edit Elefant) was born on September 29, 1927 in Kosice, Czechoslovakia in a Jewish family. His father, Lajos Elefant worked in the textile industry as a designer, while her mother, Ilona Klein was a housewife. She had two sisters, Magdalena and Klara. At a young age she attended ballet school. In 1938, the first Anti-Jewish Laws were passed in Hungary, which took affect in Kosice in time as the region was re-annexed to Hungary in late 1938. These changes gradually worsened the living conditions of her family. After the German invasion of Hungary in 1944, with her family they were forced into the local ghetto in Kosice. Six weeks later they were deported to Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp, where she was separated from her parents. With one of her sisters they were transferred to several concentration camps, and eventually they were liberated in Gunskirchen by the American armed forces. After the war they reunited with their third sister, their parents did not survived the Holocaust. She got married, and with her husband she emigrated to the United States. She has two daughters, and a grandson. Her interview was recorded in 1995, in La Jolla, California.