Description

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WITH A FOREWORD BY SIR BEN KINGSLEY

A powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz Tova Friedman following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of neardeath experiences in a Jewish ghetto a Nazi labor camp and Auschwitz

I am a survivor That comes with a survivors obligation to represent one and a half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis They cannot speak So I must speak on their behalf

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 Tovas 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 its in danger of fading from memory She has used those memories that have shaped her life to honour the victims Written with awardwinning former war reporter Malcolm Brabant this is an extremely important book Brabants meticulous research has helped Tova recall her experiences in searing detail Together they have painstakingly recreated Tovas extraordinary story about the worlds worst ever crime