Edith
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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More than 35 years after surviving Auschwitz, Edith Eva Eger returned to the Nazi concentration camp.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Edith Eger is survived by their children—Marianne Engle, a clinical psychologist; Audrey Thompson, an executive coach, and John Eger, a retired business manager—along with five grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
On May 4, 1945, at Gunskirchen, a Nazi prison camp in Austria, Edith was found by U.S. soldiers in a heap of people dead or dying.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
They divorced, but remarried two years later after Edith decided the problem wasn’t an imperfect marriage but her fear of being trapped.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
The doctor excused himself from the room, and Theo and Edith waited to see what would happen in tense, emotional silence.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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