Tova Friedman: A child who survived Auschwitz

"I just think it was luck. It was luck.”

 

Tova Friedman doesn’t believe in fate or destiny. She doesn’t believe she was “chosen” to survive the Holocaust, she told the audience on Oct. 15 at a program hosted by Chabad of the South Hills.

“I don’t believe in miracles — sorry, I don’t believe in miracles,” she said. “And I don’t believe that I was chosen. Because if I was chosen, there is nothing special about me or my family. Why did the other million-and-a-half children, why did they go to the gas chambers? I just think it was luck. It was luck.”

 
Tova Friedman at Chabad of the South Hills on Oct. 15, 2023 (Photo by Abigail Hakas)