The Daughter of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman
The Daughter of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman
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The Daughter of Auschwitz
My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope

Bestseller

Author: Tova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant

Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld

Unabridged: 7 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/06/2022


Synopsis

*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*

WITH A FOREWORD BY SIR BEN KINGSLEY

A powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz.

"I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and a half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. So I must speak on their behalf."

Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp, while her father was transported to Dachau.

During six months of incarceration in Birkenau, Tova witnessed atrocities that she could never forget, and experienced numerous escapes from death. She is one of a handful of Jews to have entered a gas chamber and lived to tell the tale.

As Nazi killing squads roamed Birkenau before abandoning the camp in January 1945, Tova and her mother hid among corpses. After being liberated by the Russians they made their way back to their hometown in Poland. Eventually Tova's father tracked them down and the family was reunited.

In The Daughter of Auschwitz, Tova immortalizes what she saw, to keep the story of the Holocaust alive, at a time when it's in danger of fading from memory. She has used those memories that have shaped her life to honour the victims. Written with award-winning former war reporter Malcolm Brabant, this is an extremely important book. Brabant's meticulous research has helped Tova recall her experiences in searing detail. Together they have painstakingly recreated Tova's extraordinary story about the world's worst ever crime.

About Tova Friedman

TOVA FRIEDMAN is one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz and uses her vivid memories to write and speak against anti-Semitism and prejudice. She taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was the director of a nonprofit social service agency for twenty-five years, and continues to work as a therapist. She has four children and eight grandchildren.

About Malcolm Brabant

MALCOLM BRABANT is an award-winning British former war correspondent who witnessed genocide in Bosnia. His evocative writing style and forensic probing of Tova’s memories remind readers of the horrors of the Holocaust at a timewhen hate is on the rise around the world and history’s worst crime is fading from memory. He is now a foreign correspondent for PBS, with several accolades to his name.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Matal “The Mischling Princess” on February 18, 2024

Over the past decade, I’ve watched hundreds of Holocaust survivor testimonies on the USC Shoah Foundation’s YouTube Channel. Every single testimony has had an enormous impact on my life. But some of those testimonies really strike a chord with me. One of those testimonies was from a woman—a child su......more

Goodreads review by Nadine on March 24, 2023

Genau solche Geschichten müssen erzählt werden.....Genau jetzt!!! Tova überlebt den Holocaust....Als sechsjährige wird sie mit ihrer Mutter aus dem Konzentrationslager Auschwitz befreit. Ihre Lebensgeschichte ist so authentisch und berührend erzählt....die Schrecken des dritten Reichs so direkt gesch......more

Goodreads review by Maddy on November 06, 2022

There aren't enough stars to give this amazing and moving book. Having read so many books about the Holocaust and the camps you think you have heard everything, then a book comes along and blows you away, and tells you things you have never heard before. The book is the story of Tova, born as Tola, w......more

Goodreads review by Tammy on September 28, 2022

Friedman is one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz. Her childhood was unimaginably horrific. What scares me most are the statistics she quotes from a survey of young Americans compiled during 2020. The results revealed their staggering ignorance regarding the Holocaust. Banned Books Week has jus......more

Goodreads review by Lori on July 11, 2022

This is the true story of Tova Friedman one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz. She was only 4 years old when she was sent to the first camp with her parents after the Jewish ghetto they lived in in Poland was liquidated. She was almost 6 when her and her mother were separated from her father an......more