Her grandson, Aron Goodman, grew up hearing about Friedman’s childhood in the Auschwitz concentration camp and started sharing her story more widely on TikTok about a year ago.

Tova Friedman says she's telling her story of having survived the Holocaust in her memoir, Daughter of Auschwitz, to honor the victims' memories. In a profound conversation with Scott Simon, she ...

See how 4-year-old Tova Friedman survived Auschwitz, ... Auschwitz concentration camp survivor Tova Friedman stands among the remains of a gas chamber on her first return to Auschwitz in 1999.

Tova Friedman, 86, ... (48%) were unable to name a single ghetto or concentration camp − even Auschwitz-Birkenau, where Anne Frank was taken after she and her family were discovered, ...

Tova arrived at the extermination camp at the age of just five years old. She now speaks to young people in person and via TikTok about how she survived a year in Auschwitz as a very young child.

Tova Friedman, 86, ... (48%) were unable to name a single ghetto or concentration camp − even Auschwitz-Birkenau, where Anne Frank was taken after she and her family were discovered, ...

Survivors and relatives place candles near the Death Wall during a ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27 ...

World News Auschwitz memorial holds observances on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation Among those who traveled to the site is 86-year-old Tova Friedman, who was 6 when she was ...

A survivor reacts at the Death Wall during the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland January 27, 2025.

Emotional Auschwitz survivors used the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation as a warning to the world: push back against rising hatred of Jews – or risk sliding into darker times.