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The daughter of Auschwitz
de Tova Friedman

The heartbreaking and moving account of one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz: a girl who was only five years old when she was sent to an extermination camp.

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Foreword by Sir Ben Kingsley

I WAS ONE OF THE YOUNGEST SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST, AND THIS IS MY STORY
A powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Firedman, in which we follow her childhood during the Holocaust and how she survived a series of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz.

Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to leave Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four years old when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labor camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced onto a truck full of cattle and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp, while her father was taken to Dachau.

During her six months of imprisonment in Birkenau, Tova witnessed atrocities she will never forget. She is one of the few who entered a gas chamber and lived to tell the tale.
In The Daughter of Auschwitz, Tova immortalizes what she saw, in order to keep the history of the Holocaust alive and prevent its memory from fading away. She has used the memories that have shaped her life to honor the victims.

Written jointly with award-winning former war reporter Malcolm Brabant, this is an extremely important and revealing book. Brabant’s meticulous research has helped Tova to recall her experiences in great detail. Together they have painstakingly recreated Tova’s extraordinary story and her necessary testimony to remember one of the most tragic episodes in history.

Tova Friedman was born in 1938, just a year before the outbreak of World War II. She was one of thousands of Jewish children living in the Polish town of Tomaszów Mazowiecki at the time. By the end of the war, only five children from Tomaszów were still alive. Tova is one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz and an activist against anti-Semitism. She was the director of a non-profit social services agency for twenty-five years. She is a therapist and lives in Highland Park in New Jersey, USA. Malcolm Brabant is an award-winning former British war correspondent for the BBC, who witnessed the genocide in Bosnia. He is now a foreign correspondent for the US PBS Newshour. He met Tova on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Birkenau. She lives in Brighton.