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The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope
Reader Score
90%
90% of readers
recommend this book
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Hanover Square Press
- Publish Date: Sep 6th, 2022
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Edition: Original - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.80in - 5.30in - 0.80in - 0.50lb
- EAN: 9781335449306
- Categories: • Jewish• Modern - 20th Century - Holocaust• Jewish - General
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What people are saying
I am Judy Woodruff of the PBS @NewsHour, now focused on reporting “America at a Crossroads” and on the challenges facing those with disabilities
a huge privilege to interview Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman and @NewsHour's @MalcolmBrabant about the book they wrote together about her experience as a young girl, who was one of the few to live through concentration camp: title "Daughter of Auschwitz"
Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News International Editor, and author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin.’ Often in Ukraine.
And read her book 'The Daughter of Auschwitz" written with @MalcolmBrabant https://t.co/Cl4vOl5w7N https://t.co/OTI1sslSoa
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“I thought that being Jewish, being a child, is synonymous with death.” Tova Friedman survived the horrors of Auschwitz as a young girl and describes her experiences in a new book, The Daughter of Auschwitz. “Every single hour was a trial, to make it to the next hour.” https://t.co/2eKChaXimF
Praise for this book
"One of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau tells her remarkable story... A heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive account from the 20th century's darkest days."-Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
"An unforgettable and deeply moving story. Malcolm Brabant brilliantly evokes the world of the ghetto and of Auschwitz through the eyes of Tova Friedman, a small child who survived the brutality of the Holocaust."-Jeremy Bowen, author of Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East
"[A] heartrending, lyrical account of a young girl's survival during the Holocaust."--Reader's Entertainment Magazine
"Absolutely riveting book. Please read it."--Judy Woodruff, lead presenter and Managing Editor at PBS Newshour
"This is the real thing, the horrors of the Holocaust brought shudderingly to life, and all from the point of view of a small child who could barely read or recognize numbers... It is an angry book, but it is also required reading."--The Jewish Chronicle
"Possibly the most astonishing book I've ever read."--Sarah Gorrell, BBC Radio Sussex
What people are saying
I am Judy Woodruff of the PBS @NewsHour, now focused on reporting “America at a Crossroads” and on the challenges facing those with disabilities
a huge privilege to interview Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman and @NewsHour's @MalcolmBrabant about the book they wrote together about her experience as a young girl, who was one of the few to live through concentration camp: title "Daughter of Auschwitz"
Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News International Editor, and author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin.’ Often in Ukraine.
And read her book 'The Daughter of Auschwitz" written with @MalcolmBrabant https://t.co/Cl4vOl5w7N https://t.co/OTI1sslSoa