Auschwitz Survivor Finds Hope in Hopelessness, Perseveres to Become Best-selling Author and Acclaimed Psychologist in Autobiographical Film in “I Danced for the Angel of Death: The Dr. Edith Eva Eger Story”

Fourth documentary from The Holocaust Education Film Foundation broadcasts on American Public Television and PBS Affiliates in recognition of National Holocaust Remembrance Day in April!

“I decided they were the prisoners, not me.” – Dr. Edith Eger

This April 2021, WLRN Public Television for South Florida and American Public Television (APT) presents “I Danced for the Angel of Death: The Dr. Edith Eva Eger Story,” a new one-hour autobiographical film from the Holocaust Education Film Foundation that reveals how Holocaust survivor Edith Eva Eger’s bravery keeps her alive through three concentration camps, only to struggle for years with flashbacks and survivor’s guilt. Edith discovers to heal, she needed to forgive the one person she had been unable to forgive – herself.

This film will be made available to public television stations on April 1, 2021, for National Holocaust Remembrance Day.

WLRN premieres the documentary on Thursday, April 8 @ 8:00 P.M. (EST), repeats forthcoming.

Limited Edition DVD available HERE

Outside of North America? Stream “I Danced for the Angel of Death: The Dr. Edith Eva Eger Story”

Major funding for this film was provided by:
The Stan Greenspon Center for Peace and Social Justice, Reconstruction: The Second Founding of America, RxSmile, Mandy and Jay Costa, Anne and Langdon Ellington, Joe Engel, Martha and Gerry Graves, Susan and Stuart Kaufman, Jackie and Dr. Jeff Laro, Drs. Marilyn and John Mendoza, Toni Froomer Rios, Bob Sambol, and Judge Charles M. Silverman.