The Daughter of Auschwitz

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Tova Friedman is eighty-four years old and lives in Highland Park, NJ. 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 an award-winning British former war correspondent who witnessed genocide in Bosnia. His evocative writing style and forensic probing of Tova’s memories remind readers of the horrors of the Holocaust at a time when hate is on the rise around the world and history’s worst crime is fading from memory. He is now a foreign correspondent for PBS, with several accolades to his name.

On driving away from my morning with Tova, the closing lines of Shakespeare’s King Lear came to mind:

Elie Wiesel would, I’m sure, allow us to use his phrase when we cite Tova Friedman as a heroine of truth and memory.

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