The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope

Reviews

Jim Kennedy

“As you read on I want you to taste and feel and smell of what it was like to live as a child during the Holocaust,” she states. Her hometown in Poland had 13,000 Jews in 1939.

James Mason

“My survival depended on my ability to judge the mood of my captors,” she writes. This important book by Tova Friedman and Malcolm Brabant is one of the best books I have read in years.

She was born in 1938 in central Poland, in a large Jewish community, and from the time she was first aware until the liberation of Auschwitz when she was seven all she knew was the oppression and the murder of the Jews. In Auschwitz she was put into a group of children who had their own barracks.

Of those survivors only 5 were children. Her mother’s unerring instincts for how to survive served them both well.

Her mother sustains a severe head injury in a beating given because she was caught stealing a single potato. Tova, at the age of 5, accepts this fate as the reality of being Jewish. ”With the help of noted British conflict journalist Malcolm Brabant Friedman gives a matter of fact account of the evil that transpired.