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Tova Friedman | |
|---|---|
| Born | Tova Grossman September 7, 1938, |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Brooklyn college |
Tova Friedman is a Polish American therapist. She is a survivor of the Holocaust.
Biography
She was born on September 7th, 1938 in Gdynia, Poland, a suburb of Danzig. Her family came from Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland and returned there as soon as the war broke out. 15.000 Jews were forced to live in a ghetto formed of six 4-story buildings in terrible conditions. The populationm was decreased by starvation, shooting and deportation.[1]
The family was transferred to Starachowice where her parents worked in an ammunition factory. When children were deported her father hid her in a crawlspace above the ceiling in their home. From there her father was deported to Dachau concentration camp and she and her mother to Auschwitz Birkenau extermination camp.[2]
Having arrived on a Sunday she was not killed on arrival, she was shaved and tattoed with a number and survived hunger and a trip to the gas chamber.
When the Nazis left the camp in January 1945 she and her mother hid between the corpses of the infirmary and were freed by the Russians on January 27, 1945. The Russians took a picture of her showing her tattoo.
Her father came back from Dachau and they stayed together in Poland. Because of antisemitism they decided to emigrate to US in 1950. She received a Bachelors of Arts degree in psychology from Brooklyn College a Master of Arts in Black literature from City College of New York and a Master of Arts in social work from Rutgers University. She taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and was Director of Jewish Family Service of Somerset and Warren Counties for over 20 years working as a therapist. She married and has 4 children and 8 grandchildren.[3]
She speaks about her experiences during the Shoah in schools and to various organizations. Her story appeared in the 1998 book Kinderlager. Her grandchild has opened a profile in TikTok where she posts videos on her experience in Auschwitz and replies to questions by children. [4]
In 2022, she published the memoir The Daughter Of Auschwitz: My Story Of Resilience, Survival And Hope which she wrote with journalist Malcolm Brabant.[5]
Notes
- ^ "Kinderlager: Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor". Calvin University. 2015. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
- ^ "Kinderlager: Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor". Calvin University. 2015. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
- ^ "A conversation with Tova Friedman". Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation. 2015. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
- ^ "The story will continue because of my grandson”, says TikTok famous Auschwitz survivor
- ^ https://www.npr.org/2022/09/03/1120917838/survivor-tova-friedmans-new-memoir-reflects-on-life-as-the-daughter-of-auschwitz
Bibliography
- Tova Friedman, "The Daughter Of Auschwitz: My Story Of Resilience, Survival And Hope," written with the veteran correspondent Malcolm Brabant
- Robert Wiener, New Jersey Jewish News,“Survivor tells her story of escape by ‘pure chance’”, June 23, 2010
- "Kinderlager: Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor". Calvin University. 2015. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
- Sackur, Stephen (September 1, 2022). "HARDtalk". BBC Television. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
- "A conversation with Tova Friedman". Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation. 2015. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
- "The story will continue because of my grandson”, says TikTok famous Auschwitz survivor
Category:Auschwitz concentration camp survivors