Dcera Osvětimi – Friedman Tova (2023)

Tova Friedman's powerful memoirs, one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, trace the path of her childhood during the Holocaust, interwoven with near-death experiences in the Jewish ghetto and in the Nazi labor and concentration camp. ***** Tova Friedman is one of the youngest to have survived Auschwitz. She survived the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in central Poland, where she lived as a toddler, and at the age of four, she was sent with her parents to a Nazi labor camp. At just under six years old, she and her mother were crammed into a cattle car and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the extermination camp Birkenau, while her father was transported to Dachau. ***** During her six-month imprisonment in Birkenau, Tova witnessed atrocities that she can never forget. She escaped death many times. She is one of the few Jews who survived the journey to the gas chamber. ***** In January 1945, as the Nazis were leaving Birkenau and their death squads were rampaging through the camp, Tova and her mother hid among the dead. ***** Years later, her memoirs reveal the horrors of war that few people today can comprehend.