2 days ago · 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 camp.

3 days ago · 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. This time, the world’s leaders hung on her every ...

4 days ago · Friedman recalled being frightened of the German shepherd guard dogs and being beaten by the SS men when she and her mother were sent to Auschwitz. “I thought that we all had to die, that it was ...

4 days ago · Tova Friedman, 86, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz as a little girl, poses for a photo ahead of commemorations on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation, Sunday, Jan. 26. 2025, in Krakow, Poland. ... She fears that rising antisemitism is also destroying the safe haven that the United States represented for Jews in the postwar era ...

3 days ago · Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman at a reception in Krakow, Poland, on January 26, 2025, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)

3 days ago · Tova Friedman, 86, is one of a dwindling number of survivors sharing their message on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025. ... 2023, and a subsequent spike in antisemitism.

Auschwitz survivors have warned of the rising antisemitism and hatred in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation. ... Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman addresses guests at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp ...

3 days ago · One the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, Tova Friedman, was just 6 years old when Auschwitz was liberated on Jan. 27, 1945. For her "whole life since I was a little girl," she thought of that ...

3 days ago · Tova Friedman, who was one of the speakers at today's event, is one of the youngest Holocaust survivors. She was brought to Auschwitz-Birkenau at the age of just five and a half years old, with ...

Apr 23, 2024 · Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman's Auschwitz prisoner tattoo is still visible to this day, serving as a "never again" reminder as her Jewish grandchildren face a modern wave of antisemitism.