With the help of Malcolm Brabant, Tova Friedman is the author of her autobiography The Daughter of Auschwitz: A Memoir. Tova was one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz. She lived with her parents in a small town in northern Poland. She lived in a Jewish ghetto for a time. Her father was a Jewish police officer so he got a little more food. He was also forced to dig a hole. The next day he had to put his parents in a truck where the stood at the edge of the hole and were shot and buried. Tova saw incredible acts of cruelty. She arrived at Auschwitz at age 4. At age 6 she was sent to the gas chambers. Her mother watched her go in. Due to some German bureaucracy she was let back out of the gas chambers and back to her ward. By age 7 the war was over. Tova and her parents had survived. This was an incredible story to read. Tova's resilience and will to live are outstanding.
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