ROSELLE, NJ – In honor of Genocide Awareness Month (the month of April) Leonard V. Moore Middle School in Roselle, welcomed one of the youngest Holocaust survivors to their school to talk to the sixth grade class on April 10.
Students had the opportunity to hear Mrs. Tova Friedman talk about her experiences and about the Holocaust.
At the age of 80, Tova Friedman is among the youngest people to survive the Nazi Holocaust, and one of the few Jewish children to have lived through the nightmarish ordeals of Auschwitz.
When Tova Friedman meets someone who believes the Holocaust never happened, she shows them her tattoo on her arm “A27633,” a mark she was branded with as a 5-year-old girl at Auschwitz. Four million perished at the German concentration camp.
Students prepared for this experience by watching a short video. They were first asked to imagine what it would be like if everyone they knew, everywhere they liked to go and everything they liked to do were taken away.
Friedman asked the students to tell her story, and teach others about the Holocaust. She mentioned, “This is not my story anymore, it is now yours to share.”