We, as people, could do nothing to stop these murders, nor the next. There was no retribution. No eye for an eye. They were killing us with impunity. Despite the horrendous circumstances into which Tova was born and grew up, she still believed in a G-d who taught humankind the difference between good and evil and bestowed upon us free will. She added, “one of the consequences of free will is that humans can choose to follow a dark path.” Unfortunately much of her story confirms her conclusion, but her resilience and sense of justice enabled her to cling to the belief that a single candle can bring light to the darkest corners of our world. Mit jedem Tag, der vergeht verlieren wir Zeitzeugen. Die Tage vergehen und immer mehr Menschen leugnen den Holocaust.

a b c d e f Prof. Douglas O. Linder, "Testimony of Rudolf Höß at the Nuremberg Trials, April 15, 1946" available online at Famous World Trials: The Nuremberg Trials: 1945–48, UMKC School of Law. OCLC 45390347 Michael Phayer (2000), The Catholic Church and the Holocaust: 1930–1965 Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253214718; p. 111.A ninety-two-year-old former lawyer asked octogenarian Tova Friedman, “have you ever heard of Auschwitz?” while uncovering a tattoo on his forearm. Whereupon she rolled up her left sleeve, revealing A27633 – and together they wept as they shared stories of their losses and triumphs. The fact she is 83 now made me realise time will soon erase all those that experienced this first hand and it’s important to capture as much insight as we can before relying on second hand accounts. This is really one of the key lessons, I think, of the Holocaust, which is that if you stand aside and you don’t do anything, then disaster and murder and genocide takes place. And the worst thing of all is complicity. And at the time there was an awful lot of antisemitism in Poland. Not everybody in Poland was antisemitic, there were lots of people who actually fought really hard, but in the town that Tova came from, it was quite bad. Thomas Harding (7 September 2013). "Hiding in N. Virginia, a daughter of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding". The Washington Post . Retrieved 8 February 2015.

On 25 May 1946, he was handed over to Polish authorities and the Supreme National Tribunal in Poland tried him for murder. In his essay on the Final Solution in Auschwitz, which he wrote in Kraków, he revised the previously given death toll: [64] 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.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 and sent to the extermination camp Auschwitz II or Birkenau as we know it, her father was sent to Dachau.

I spoke recently with that once young girl and her co-author, who is well-known to our "NewsHour" viewers. SS Personnel Service Record of Rudolf Höss, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland, US. Primomo, John W. (2020). Architect of death at Auschwitz: a biography of Rudolf Höss. Jefferson, North Carolina. pp.55–57. ISBN 978-1-4766-8146-7. OCLC 1133655190. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) It is horrifying reading Tova's story, to read how casually the young Tova viewed death, not afraid of hiding snuggled up tight with a corpse because as she said, why be afraid of the dead woman, the dead wouldn't hurt her. No, not like the alive Nazis would. These experiences are so beyond what I can comprehend, reading her story, her words as she describes what life was like for her. One of her first memories being in the ghetto and her always hidden underneath a table with a tablecloth, this is where she spent most of her young days. The train ride in the cattle cars, just everything, it is like reading a horror story. I cried and cried for the young Tova and the loss of innocence. I feel as she did, that these stories need to continue to be told, that we need to be reminded of these horrific events, we need to be vigilant and aware so that this history is never again repeated. This book should be on everyone's required reading list.Die 4jährige Tova musste mit ihren Eltern in solch ein Vernichtungslager und mit 6 kam sie nach Auschwitz-Birkenau. Wie überlebt man solch ein Grauen? Warum hat gerade sie überlebt? Sie berichtet davon mal sehr nüchtern und manchmal sehr emotional. 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. Auschwitz imprinted itself in my DNA. Almost everything I have done in my post-war life, every decision I have made, has been shaped by my experiences during the Holocaust.” Such is the response of Tova Friedman in this compelling and confronting memoir, co-written with Malcolm Brabant, British journalist. As one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, liberated at the age of six, Tova recorded the horrors she survived with astounding clarity. Saved countless times by the strength and resourcefulness of her beloved mother, Tova chronicled not only the atrocities she witnessed in the ghetto and in the camps to which she and her mother were sent, but also her “survivor growth” as she honoured the 6 million Jews who were murdered by “build[ing] a meaningful life”. I had the privilege and the honor, along with one of my children, of having dinner a week ago with Tova Friedman’s daughter, son in law and grandson. I immediately started reading The Daughter of Auschwitz following our dinner (it was on my Goodreads list).