The daughter of Auschwitz : my story of resilience, survival and hope

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The daughter of Auschwitz : my story of resilience, survival and hope

Title remainder

my story of resilience, survival and hope

Statement of responsibility

Tova Friedman and Malcolm Brabant

Creator

• trueFriedman, Tova, 1938-

Contributor

• Kingsley, Ben, 1943-
• Brabant, Malcolm

Author

• trueFriedman, Tova, 1938-
• Brabant, Malcolm

Subject

• Biographies
• Birkenau (Concentration camp)
• Birkenau (Concentration camp)
• Friedman, Tova, 1938-
• Friedman, Tova, 1938-
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives
• Jewish children in the Holocaust
• Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Biography
• Nazi concentration camp inmates
• Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Biography
• Personal narratives
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish
• Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
• Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
• Autobiographies

Genre

• Autobiographies
• truePersonal narratives
• trueBiography
• Personal narratives, Jewish
• Biographies

Language

• eng
• eng

Summary

"Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp, while her father was transported to Dachau. During six months of incarceration in Birkenau, Tova witnessed atrocities that she could never forget, and experienced numerous escapes from death. She is one of a handful of Jews to have entered a gas chamber and lived to tell the tale. As Nazi killing squads roamed Birkenau before abandoning the camp in January 1945, Tova and her mother hid among corpses. After being liberated by the Russians they made their way back to their hometown in Poland. Eventually Tova's father tracked them down and the family was reunited. In The Daughter of Auschwitz, Tova immortalizes what she saw, to keep the story of the Holocaust alive, at a time when it's in danger of fading from memory. She has used those memories that have shaped her life to honour the victims. Written with award-winning former war reporter Malcolm Brabant, this is an extremely important book. Brabant's meticulous research has helped Tova recall her experiences in searing detail. Together they have painstakingly recreated Tova's extraordinary story about the world's worst ever crime."

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Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

CNWPU

Dewey number

940.53/18092

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• plates

Index

no index present

LC call number

DS135.P63

LC item number

F75 2022

Literary form

non fiction