Tova Friedman

On TovaTok, Holocaust survivor and her grandson bring her story to Gen Z

Tova Friedman is one of the youngest Holocaust survivors. Her grandson Aron Goodman shares her memories to counter anti-Semitism, educate on Holocaust. April 10, 2023, 11:46 AM PDTBy Meghan Holohan  When Tova Friedman came to the United States at 11 years old, she learned that children’s lives in the U.S. continued as normal during World War II and […]

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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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84-Year old NJ Holocaust Survivor Becomes an Author and TikTok Star

Tova Friedman with Grandson, Aron Goodman Matthew Korfhage NorthJersey.com | USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY Tova Friedman’s mother always told her the truth. The truth, she knew, was the only thing that could keep her daughter alive. So when Friedman’s grandparents were murdered by Nazis in 1942, in the Jewish ghetto of Tomaszów Mazowiecki,

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‘I grew up with corpses everywhere’: Holocaust survivor uses TikTok to tell her story

‘The smell of the burning of the bodies was everywhere. That’s how I thought the air was supposed to smell.’ Tova Friedman was just 5 years old when she was taken with her family to the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was 6 when she was taken to Crematorium III.  Read on USA Today.com

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So hungry she licked paint off the walls! Tola Grossman was just five when she was sent to Auschwitz – and escaped certain death by hiding under a corpse

Tola Grossman, aged 6, a Polish Jew, was in a Nazi extermination camp in 1945 Now 84-years-old and widowed she writes a memoir about the experience  She describes how her malnourished mother helped her to survive death  On January 25, 1945, panicky shots rang out across the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Six-year-old Tola Grossman —

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‘Daughter of Auschwitz’ chronicles the life of one of the youngest Holocaust survivors

The new memoir “Daughter of Auschwitz” tells the harrowing story of one young girl’s survival through the Holocaust. Tova Friedman co-wrote the book with correspondent Malcolm Brabant. They joined Judy Woodruff to discuss Friedman’s life story. Video and Article on PBS

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Survivor Tova Friedman’s new memoir reflects on life as ‘The Daughter of Auschwitz’

Tova Friedman’s memoir helps us see the Holocaust not only as a monstrous crime of history, but puts us inside the life and eyes of a little girl living in a ghetto of central Poland who was sent to a Nazi labor camp and even a gas chamber and has somehow lived to tell her extraordinary story.

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