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.Friedman taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and later served as the director of the Jewish Family Service of Somerset and Warren Counties.

Before the ceremony, which took place in a tent built over the gate to the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp, leaders stressed how important it was to preserve the memory of the Holocaust. - With AAP Yvonne Engelman, 98, survived the Nazis.

Sep 22, 2022 · In a profound conversation with Scott Simon, she recalls her childhood – from her tiny apartment in the Jewish ghetto to the crematorium in the concentration camp – and grapples with how such...

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....

Jan 27, 2025 · AUSCHWITZ – Auschwitz survivors and world leaders marked the 80th anniversary of the Nazi death camp’s liberation on Monday, warning that antisemitism is not a remnant of the past and pledging...

Tova and her mother arrived at Auschwitz in June 1944. Once marched to the gas chambers, Tova anticipated her death. For a reason unbeknownst to her, the children were not gassed that day.

Sep 6, 2022 · A powerful memoir by one of the youngest ever survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz.

Jan 27, 2025 · Tova Friedman, 86, is one of a dwindling number of survivors sharing their message on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025.

Sep 3, 2022 · Tova Friedman's memoir helps us see the Holocaust not only as a monstrous crime of history, but puts us inside the life and eyes of a little girl living in a ghetto of central Poland who...

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...