At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement and her survival. Edie was pulled from a pile of corpses when the American troops liberated the camps in 1945. Edie spent decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor’s guilt, determined to stay silent and hide from the past....

The World of Yesterday is Stefan Zweig’s hauntingly beautiful memoir of Europe before its fall — a moving portrait of art, culture, and humanism destroyed by war. Both a love letter and a farewell to a vanished world, The World of Yesterday remains one of the most powerful autobiographies of the twentieth century. Its themes — humanism, tolerance, the dangers of nationalism — are as urgent...