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 This book is incredible. It is unbelievably heartbreaking though. I’m so grateful for people willing to tell their stories about this piece of history. 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. In a powerfully written book, THE DAUGHTER OF AUSCHWITZ (Hanover Square Press 2022), Tova Friedman recounts firsthand experiences of how she struggled to survive the most heinous crime of history, the Holocaust. She chronicles her story of survival, under the direst of circumstances, beginning with the Nazi invasion of Poland until her liberation from Auschwitz. Tova points out that the conception Jews went to their slaughter like sheep is a common misconception. Although overwhelmed by the barbaric Gestapo, uprisings sprang up in a hundred Jewish ghettos. Ironically, the Wehrmacht, the formidable German war machine, suffered defeat in part because it diverted resources necessary to win the war, due to its obsession to make the world Judenrein– free of Jews. Although the accounts of Nazi sadism and perverse cruelties made the book difficult to read, it would be doing a disservice to ignore or gloss over the atrocities the victims and survivors suffered at the hands of the Nazis and their all too willing European accomplices.

After discussions with Höss during the Nuremberg trials at which he testified, the American military psychologist Gustave Gilbert wrote the following: Her personal memories were accompanied by references to her father’s written contributions to the Yiskor {remembrance} book, written post-war, which portrayed the ghetto in which they were imprisoned, its destruction, and the slaughter of the Jews within its walls. The father was separated from Tova and her mother, but reunited after liberation. The impact of their Holocaust experiences lay heavily on each of them in the years that followed. What it does is, is it takes them all the way through what happened in the ghetto all the way to the camps. And you see these people being stripped of absolutely everything and the awful decisions they have to make. Evans, Richard J. (2005). The Third Reich in Power. New York: Penguin Group. ISBN 978-0-14-303790-3.A] heartrending, lyrical account of a young girl’s survival during the Holocaust.”— Reader’s Entertainment Magazine a b c Langbein, Hermann (2004). People in Auschwitz. Univ of North Carolina Press. pp.311, 411–413. ISBN 9780807828168. TikTok, because he thought that his schoolmates don't know anything about it. And he knew that they watched the platform, that they were comfortable with it. At the very end of her time in Birkenau, Friedman was reunited with her mother, who was able to save them both from the final death march of prisoners as the Russians advanced towards the camp. After the war, they were reunited with Friedman’s father. Returning to their home town they were met with resentment and unabated antisemitism: children threw stones at Friedman when she went to school; her aunt was murdered by an antisemitic gang in Lodz in 1946.

Tova Friedman, Co-Author, "The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope": Well, he was talking to me.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 The earliest inmates at Auschwitz were Soviet prisoners-of-war and Polish prisoners, including peasants and intellectuals. Some 700 arrived in June 1940, and were told they would not survive more than three months. [35] At its peak, Auschwitz comprised three separate facilities: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Auschwitz III-Monowitz. These included many satellite sub-camps, and the entire camp was built on about 8,000 hectares (20,000 acres) that had been cleared of all inhabitants. [28] Auschwitz I was the administrative centre for the complex; Auschwitz II Birkenau was the extermination camp where most of the murders were committed; and Auschwitz III Monowitz was the slave-labour camp for I.G. Farbenindustrie AG, and later other German industries. The main purpose of Monowitz was the production of buna, a form of synthetic rubber.

And my mother met somebody she knew, a Polish neighbor. And the neighbor was coming towards us. And my mother was so happy to see somebody she knew. And the Polish woman said to her, which I remember very well: "What are you still doing here? I thought Hitler killed you all." Thomas Harding (31 August 2013). "Was my Jewish great-uncle a Nazi hunter?". The Guardian . Retrieved 24 September 2017.And what we have tried to do is to take the reader and immerse them into Tova's story, so that they feel as though that they were walking in her shoes. Müller, Hans (1994). Führung gut – politisch unzuverlässig. Oberhausen, Germany: Asso Verlag. p.152. ISBN 3-921541-87-5.

SS Personnel Service Record of Rudolf Höss, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland, US. Evans, Richard J. (2003). The Coming of the Third Reich. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-303469-8. This is a well-written, informative, riveting, Holocaust survivor's memoir. It describes the horrors and deprivation experienced by a young girl, and her bravery, courage, hope and resilience. Many thanks to Mrs. Tova Friedman for reliving the suffering that she experienced to share her story with us, so that we will never forget. Höß, Rudolph (2000) [1959]. Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Höß. Translated by FitzGibbon, Constantine. Introduced by Primo Levi. London: Phoenix Press. ISBN 978-1842120248. Now, Tova, there’s more than the book. You’ve also done a TikTok story about this. Tell us about that.Her co-author is our very own Malcolm Brabant. And we are just delighted to have them joining us from London. Pressac, Jean-Claude; Pelt, Robert-Jan van (1994). "The Machinery of Mass Murder at Auschwitz". In Gutman, Yisrael; Berenbaum, Michael (eds.). Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. pp. 183–245. ISBN 978-0-253-32684-3. Romanov, Sergey (8 November 2009). "Holocaust Controversies: War-time German document mentioning Auschwitz gassings: testimony of Eleonore Hodys". Holocaust Controversies . Retrieved 24 July 2018. This was a true story vs. a historical fiction. The author wants to make sure that no one ever forgets what happened during the holocaust, and as human beings, we never should!