The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope

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I was very sad to read such high percentages of people do not believe this happened or are just oblivious to it. It’s so important that history never repeats itself. During the first interrogation they beat me to obtain evidence. I do not know what was in the transcript, or what I said, even though I signed it, because they gave me liquor and beat me with a whip. It was too much even for me to bear. The whip was my own. By chance it had found its way into my wife's luggage. My horse had hardly ever been touched by it, much less the prisoners. Somehow one of the interrogators probably thought that I had used it to constantly whip the prisoners. He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.

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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. 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. I can no longer remember the figures for the smaller actions, but they were insignificant by comparison with the numbers given above. I regard a total of 2.5 million as far too high. Even Auschwitz had limits to its destructive capabilities. Tova überlebt den Holocaust....Als sechsjährige wird sie mit ihrer Mutter aus dem Konzentrationslager Auschwitz befreit.

Tova was born just before the war and didn’t know what peace and normality was. Raised till she was six in horrific conditions where death and skill of survival was paramount. 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. She and her mother had been separated from her father at Auschwitz, not knowing his fate. They left the camp in April 1945. Her mother uttered one word, “Remember.” Tola Grossman is now Tova Friedman and she’s written a deeply vivid and affecting account of her life then, and since. It’s called The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival, and Hope. Her co-author is our very own, Malcolm Brabant, and we are just delighted to have them joining us from London. Hello, to both of you, Tova, and to Malcolm. This book came about as a result of Malcolm coming to report on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, and he was talking to you, Tova, how did this book idea come about? Tova, ( she changed her name not just from Tola- a name she was born with, but also from the name Susan adoptive family gave her - perhaps out of what they perceived would protect her from being bullied in school -and guess what? From adults too!) Gives us a peek into a world that narrowed and became extremely more difficult each day to survive.

I and my mother, the two of us, we didn’t know anybody else who survived. Just two of us walking into the town. 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.” So, the war did not end for us, for many of us, at the liberation.This is a story of just one young girl and her mother. Sadly, after all they've endured...after liberation and life getting close to some sort of normalcy, Mamma passes. Tola's father also survives... 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! And I told him that, for years, I wanted to write a book about my life. I started many times, but I just wasn't disciplined enough. And I'm not really a very good writer, at least not such a serious book. Günther Maria Halmer took on the role of Höss in the 1988-89 American television miniseries War and Remembrance. So, shortly after that, I think he called and — right, and we said something about, maybe we should really write the book that you have been talking about.