WITH A FOREWORD BY SIR BEN KINGSLEY. 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. “I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor’s obligation to represent one and a half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. So I must speak on their behalf.” Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II…
Publisher: Hanover Square Press; Original edition (September 6, 2022); Pages: 304 pages; ISBN-10: 1335449302; ISBN-13: 978-1335449306; ASIN: B09Q639RW7
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Author’s biography: Tova Friedman is eighty-four years old and lives in New Jersey, USA. She is one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz and uses her vivid memories to write and speak against anti-Semitism and prejudice. She was the director of a nonprofit social service agency for twenty-five years and continues to work as a therapist. Malcolm Brabant is a veteran, award-winning veteran foreign correspondent. Brabant has reported from over 80 countries. He has co-authored ‘The Daughter of Auschwitz,” with Tova Friedman, one of the youngest survivors of the death camp. Currently he is working as a special correspondent in Europe for America’s PBS Newshour programme. He is also the director of ‘Malcolm is a Little Unwell,’ a feature length film documentary. Previously he worked for 25 years as a BBC foreign correspondent. He is best known in Britain for his radio reportage from Sarajevo, and in the US for his films about refugees. Brabant is married to Trine Villemann, a best selling Danish author and journalist. They met in Sarajevo in 1995. Their son Lukas is a budding music producer. They live in Brighton England. Website: malcolmbrabant.org