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2015 - Tova Friedman - Kinderlager: Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor

13/01/2015
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Descripción de 2015 - Tova Friedman - Kinderlager: Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor

The number reads A27633 and it’s been tattooed on her forearm for over 70 years. Tova Friedman is one of the youngest known survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. She entered the camp with her mother and father at the age of 5 and, despite being led into the gas chambers, she miraculously survived. She was one of the 7,000 prisoners found alive during the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet army in January 1945—this January marks the 70th anniversary of their liberation. She and two other women among the children liberated were interviewed by Holland, Michigan, author Milton Nieuwsma for the 1998 book “Kinderlager: An Oral History of Young Holocaust Survivors” which was made into a PBS documentary in 2005. Friedman’s parents also survived and the family eventually immigrated to New York in 1950. Friedman went on to attend the City College of New York and to receive a masters of social work at Rutgers University. She has spent a great deal of her life working for the Jewish community. Friedman lived in Israel from 1967 to 1977 with her husband and four children, and she taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is the retired director of Jewish Family Service for Somerset County in New Jersey.