Overview
- Her death was announced by her Spanish publisher Planeta, which said her message will live on through her books and readers.
- Deported from Hungary to Auschwitz at 16 in 1944, she later endured Mauthausen and Gunskirchen before U.S. soldiers rescued her in 1945.
- After emigrating to the United States, she earned a doctorate in psychology, taught at the University of California, and ran a clinic in La Jolla, drawing guidance from mentor Viktor Frankl.
- Her memoir The Choice, published in Spanish in 2018 as La bailarina de Auschwitz, sold more than one million copies worldwide, including over 500,000 in Spanish.
- A young-reader adaptation released in 2025 extended her testimony to new generations, a role that grows as first-hand Holocaust voices pass to history.