Tova Friedman (née Tola Grossman; born September 7, 1938) is a Jewish American therapist, social worker, author, and academic born in Poland. She is a Holocaust survivor who was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Jan 29, 2023 · Tova Friedman is one of the youngest Holocaust survivors. Her grandson Aron Goodman shares her memories to counter anti-Semitism, educate on Holocaust. When Tova Friedman came to the United...

As a six-year-old child Tova Friedman watched as her parents pleas fell on deaf ears. “The cries and prayers of so many desperate women permeated my soul and haunt me to this day.” She told a host of dignitaries and officials gathered at Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of its liberation.

May 11, 2024 · KINGSTON — On Wednesday night at the Friedman Jewish Community Center, Tova Friedman, one of the youngest people to have survived the Holocaust, told about 350 in attendance about the evening...

Sep 6, 2022 · The new memoir "Daughter of Auschwitz" tells the harrowing story of one young girl's survival through the Holocaust. Tova Friedman co-wrote the book with correspondent Malcolm Brabant.

Oct 19, 2023 · Friedman, 85, was born in 1938 and lived in Tomaszów Lubelski, a Polish town of 30,000 people, half of whom were Jewish. When the Nazis invaded her town, the first thing they did was kill the...

Jan 28, 2025 · Tova Friedman of Highland Park knows the reality of antisemitism. She lived it as a child survivor of Auschwitz. This week, she marked 80 years since her liberation from the concentration...

Jan 16, 2025 · Tova Friedman of Highland Park looks calmly out at the camera. She has big blue eyes, short blonde hair, discreetly red lipstick, big gold hoop earrings, and a gold necklace. She speaks with...

Tova describes the dreaded Appell, the lining up and counting of names, the persistent hunger and getting scarlet fever. She was only five years old, barely surviving in the women’s camp, but she was with her mother who told her everything and what to do. Tova survived.

Sep 3, 2022 · Shivering and shaking under a thin towel in an Auschwitz gas chamber, Tova Friedman had resigned herself to death. At just six years old, she had seen more horror than most see in a lifetime.