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Holocaust survivor shares on TikTok to educate young people

“It really snowballed,” said Friedman. “And then we realized it was a fabulous medium for the Holocaust, for young people who don’t want to read the books, who don’t like the classes in school, who don’t like the way the teachers teach or whatever, who are bored with it, or some who never heard of it. Here they are, listening.”

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Tova Friedman’s Emotional Testimony of Auschwitz at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

In this moving video, Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman shares her personal story with a captivated crowd at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Tova was born in Poland and was only five years old when the German army invaded her town. She and her family were forced to live in a ghetto before eventually being sent to the notorious Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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Onstage at the Lincoln Library

As part of the programming for our Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away. exhibition, please join us for a special in-person event as we share a collection of heirloom recipes and stories from Auschwitz- Birkenau survivors. We will be joined at this event by Tova Friedman, a survivor and cookbook contributor, as well as the executive director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation, Dr. Maria Zalewska, the author of the cookbook.

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Kinderlager: An Oral History of Young Holocaust Survivors

Relaying the first-person stories of three women incarcerated in Auschwitz as children, Nieuwsma, a freelance journalist, has done an impressive job of capturing their voices and presenting coherent accounts of their experiences. The women respectively ages six, seven and 10 upon liberation in 1945 describe how they survived the decimation of their Jewish community in the Polish town of Tomaszow Mazowiecki, endured the unimaginable conditions at Auschwitz and came to be placed in that concentration camp’s Kinderlager, or children’s camp. They also identify the hardships these early experiences created for them in their adult lives.