The Daughter of Auschwitz

My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope

By: Tova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

*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 near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz.

"I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's 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 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.

©2022 Tova Friedman and Malcolm Brabant (P)2022 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited

Amazing Survival Story

The story is one of resilience and the maturity that can be found in children. Thank you for sharing this piece of history and of your life

Compelling history and more

I am grateful for the survivors willing to share their story. Not only was this a story about the atrocities at Auschwitz but also how that life altering experience framed her future. Listen, read, whatever your medium, you need to hear what she has to say.

Thank you

I found this book because I follow the author on tiktok. As soon as it was available I had to get it. Her story her life shows us today that what happened then needs to never repeat. However it feels as though it is. So thank you Tova for opening peoples eyes.

Amazing and so moving!

So moving! May we never forget the horror they endured and teach our children so it never happens again!

How she survived as a child in the holocaust. I know she is among a rare few.

I enjoyed everything in this story! And recomend it even if you are not into war stories.

The history

.i loved the the whole book. There wasn’t anything I didn’t like. Thank very much

Very Moving

We can read historical accounts of the holocaust, but to read (hear) personal accounts prove far more moving. I found that Tova’s story touched me deep down.

Amazing

This is an amazing account from a woman who was a very young child, who survived Auschwitz and birkenau.

The Daughter of Auschwitz

The jouney of Toya and her family was an emotional story through the eyes of a little girl the atrocity’s of the Holocaust. It’s a must read! We’ll written and appropriate for a young adult.

Great book

When I first heard her story back in 2017 I was like she needs to write a book I’m so glad she did I really enjoyed the book