The Daughter of Auschwitz
My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope
[United States] : Harlequin Audio, 2022.
Format: Eaudiobook
Edition: Unabridged.
Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 53 min.)) : digital.
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 labor camp. She was 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-the Shoah-alive at a time when it's in danger of fading from memory. She has used those memories that have shaped her life to honor 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.
Other Authors:
Maarleveld, Saskia, narrator.
Brabant, Malcolm, author.
Kingsley, Ben, 1943- writer of foreword.
hoopla digital.
Maarleveld, Saskia, narrator.
Brabant, Malcolm, author.
Kingsley, Ben, 1943- writer of foreword.
hoopla digital.
Subjects:
Friedman, Tova, 1938-
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Holocaust survivors -- Biography.
Nazi concentration camps -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Liberation.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Biography.
Friedman, Tova, 1938-
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Holocaust survivors -- Biography.
Nazi concentration camps -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Liberation.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781488215698
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Read by Saskia Maarleveld.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Read by Saskia Maarleveld.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.