What an extraordinary read. Such a powerful story sensitively told for UKS2 children. It is impossible to read this and not be moved by the events experienced by Tova.

Based on true events, we learn of Tova’s fight for survival during the Holocaust at just 5years old. Reimagined for younger readers, Tova tells of her 7year experience before she settled at 12years old following liberation in America.

Forced to be invisible and silent for much of her childhood to survive, we learn of Tovas childhood through the Ghetto to Auschwitz. Her families distress and loss is explored throughout with education on TikTok in her 80s with her grandson.

A harrowing read told from a Holocaust survivor.

Thank you to NetGalley for the copy of Daughter of Auschwitz, The Girl
Who Lived to Tell Her Story - Tova Friedman.

This very moving and harrowing account of a very young Jewish girl surviving t persecution by the Nazi regime and enduring the horrors of the concentration camps. She was only 7 years old when she was liberated but had learned to survive even though she was separated from her mother in Auschwitz. The situations that she endured were remarkable for a child of her age, but she realised she had to survive so that the family could be reunited when the War was over. Litle did she know at the time that her whole extended family, with the exception of her parents, had ended their existence in the gas chambers and when she discovered that, she embarked on a journey to tell the World of the horror of the Holocaust. When she was eventually reunited with her parents they all had to endure the agony of struggling to obtain visas to leave Europe for the USA to start a new life with a new language and still more prejudice. Eventually, Tova attended school and college and then gradually came to terms with her struggle and went into print then on the road to spread her experiences of the camps and the warning that the same could happen again unless we, the world, learn the lessons of the Holocaust.
Everyone, of all ages , should read this book and take note.

I have read a lot of books about World War II and no matter how many times I read accounts of Auschwitz and the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis, I never fail to be shocked by the way people can treat people. This is, I believe, how it should be as the moment  that we are no longer shocked by this horror is exactly what allows such hatred and intolerance to thrive.

This well-written book is as you'd expect: harrowing, heartbreaking and incomprehensible for those of us who are fortunate to not have first-hand experience of such atrocities.

Firstly, I have been to Auschwitz and seen the horror of what occurred and the results left behind. I have read lots of stories since visiting Auschwitz and have a different mindset reading these now. It is now 2024 and each time I read a book about this point in history, I am always transported back to when I first visited Auschwitz and I am always just as shocked reading the details every time. I believe it is always important to remember this point in history. Hence, we know what extreme hate looks like, what humanity is capable of, what humans are capable of and how we can avoid this ever happening again. This is a first for me by the author and one I enjoyed and would read more of their work. Thank you very much to the author, publisher and Netgalley for this ARC.

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