The Daughter of Auschwitz: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - a heartbreaking true story of courage, resilience and survival

Reviews

Jim Kennedy

Her mother sustains a severe head injury in a beating given because she was caught stealing a single potato. Josef Mengele performed his twisted, sadistic experiments. Yet Tova Friedman’s account of her early life caught up in Germany’s attempt to eradicate the Jewish people is a shocking and compelling read.

James Mason

“Auschwitz imprinted itself in my DNA. Tova, at the age of 5, accepts this fate as the reality of being Jewish.

Her hometown in Poland had 13,000 Jews in 1939. Her experiences,told through her young eyes, made me gasp and shout out loud. It is a true and heart rending account of how 4 year old Tova survived Auschwitz. 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. At the end of the war only 200 had survived. Terrifying though these experiences were, there is a lot of light in this book adeptly woven in by the author. “My survival depended on my ability to judge the mood of my captors,” she writes.

It was all part of her daily life. Next to the barracks for the children was the laboratory where Dr. This book is a very well-written account of a child’s experience living through what is undoubtedly one of humanity’s darkest episodes. Do not miss reading it and pass it on.