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The Daughter of Auschwitz
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Summary
An incredible story of courage, resilience and survival.
'I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. So I must speak on their behalf.'
Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp, while her father was transported to Dachau.
During six months of incarceration in Birkenau, Tova witnessed atrocities that she could never forget, and experienced numerous escapes from death. She is one of a handful of Jews to have entered a gas chamber and lived to tell the tale.
As Nazi killing squads roamed Birkenau before abandoning the camp in January 1945, Tova and her mother hid among corpses. After being liberated by the Russians they made their way back to their hometown in Poland. Eventually Tova's father tracked them down and the family was reunited.
In The Daughter of Auschwitz, Tova immortalises what she saw, to keep the story of the Holocaust alive, at a time when it's in danger of fading from memory. She has used those memories that have shaped her life to honour the victims. Written with award-winning former war reporter Malcolm Brabant, this is an extremely important book. Brabant's meticulous research has helped Tova recall her experiences in searing detail. Together they have painstakingly recreated Tova's extraordinary story about the world's worst ever crime.
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- susanK
- 11-09-22
The Best Listen this Year
I will certainly listen to this book again. This should be listed as Required Listening.
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- Happytraceygirl
- 19-09-22
Truly memorising
Truly memorising and gives a great insight.The best I have heard yet and defiantly worth a listen or read.
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- nikki b
- 17-12-22
A must listen
An account of the gut wrenching atrocities that no human should ever go through. The sheer strength of spirit to overcome and rebuild.
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- MISS M WONG
- 01-12-22
The daughter of Auschwitz a very moving memoir
A very moving account of the writers life which was spent in her early years in various camps including Aushwitz and how she felt she needed rightly to share her story to pass on the message of the horrors of the holocaust
Very well narrated too
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- Anonymous User
- 13-03-24
yhe holocaust account
I thought it was really.well notated very well and I could really get into it especially has I don't sleep at night thank you very much for a really good audio book
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- kelly
- 11-09-22
Everyone should read this.
I’ve read my fair share of accounts of the atrocities suffered during WW2. This is beautifully written and particularly interesting as it is from a child’s perspective of the persecution they encountered. You really feel like you are there watching history unfold. As a father of three children it made me pause throughout to consider what I would do in the same circumstance. This is a book I recommend sharing as we must ensure history does not repeat itself.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-12-23
After darkness comes the light
The darkness which is deceived in necessarily gruesome detail then turns into a further story of the beauty of life and family enhanced by the fuel of survival from pure evil.
Thank you for sharing your story. I hope everyone listens. Lest we forget.
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- Alexandra Mansfield
- 30-12-22
A MUST READ/LISTEN TO BOOK!!
A tribute to Tola/Tova's utter determination to live & to her Mama's equal determination to help her live. NO CHILD should EVER have to see the sights that Tova did. I am Catholic, but have lived in Israel & always held the belief that, through the Jewish faith comes my own. It is SO important that we continue to never forget & to pass on to our Children the information, so we can all learn to embrace each others beliefs & cultures. It would never do to all be the same, we must be tolerant of everyone. God Bless you Tova!
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- Joanne Brown-Barnes
- 27-02-24
Amazing story of survival
We had just visited krakow to pay our respect to those lives lost to the atrocity’s during 2nd world war. Listening to the account told by a survivor and stories of families friends neighbours and others. The truth of what truly happened was heartbreaking the strength and resilience of humans what we can and do endure to survive.
I can never understand what the people suffered but having visited l can now piece together some of her story. The silence throughout the tours was profound no words spoken not a bird flew above. When listening it helped me visualise and play out the scenes in my mind in an attempt to empathise with the reader. An amazing story one of which should never be forgotten.
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- Anne
- 02-03-23
Moving and powerful
Tova tells tells her story in a matter of fact way without drama. It is all the more powerful because of that. A story that needs to be told.
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