Tova Friedman
holocaust Auschwitz survivor
Tova Friedman (nee Tola Grossman) (Born September 7, 1938.) Tova Friedman is a Polish-American Holocaust survivor, educator, social worker, and therapist. She was born in 1939 in Gdynia, Poland, and was only six years old when she and her family were forced to live in the Sosnowiec ghetto. Tova survived the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau and was liberated by the Soviet army in January 1945.
Quotes
edit- "I don't know how to explain it. It was a feeling of not knowing where I belong."[1]
- Friedman on her experience after being liberated in 1945.
- "I saw my father being beaten up. I saw my mother being taken away. I saw my brother going to the gas chambers. But I had to survive. And I did." [2]
- Friedman in an interview with NBC.