 | Daughter Of Auschwitz: The Girl Who Lived To Tell Her Story Author: Friedman, Tova | |
| Price: $8.19 | ||
Summary:
A memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, 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.
Reviews:
School Library Journal (+) (03/28/25)
Booklist (03/01/25)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (00/04/25)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 03/01/2025 This Holocaust memoir is especially engaging and should resonate with middle-grade readers. It’s 1950, and 12-year-old Tola and her parents are refugees living in Queens. When a classmate, Lilly, invites Tola over for Thanksgiving, Tola is nervous but agrees. When she arrives, Lilly is welcoming but wonders why Tola isn’t spending the day with her own relatives. Tola promises to explain everything, and the rest of the book is a factual account of everything Tola experienced as a Jewish girl living in Poland: from Kristallnacht, to ghetto imprisonment, to transport and internment at Auschwitz, to liberation and resettlement. Written in first person, Tola’s account is searing, straightforward, and compelling. She relates unimaginable scenes through the eyes of a survivor, sharing age-appropriate interpretations of what she was seeing and feeling, resulting in fresh perspectives. Tola, now Tova Friedman, is a grandmother and antisemitism activist. A concluding Author Q&A answers common questions raised on Friedman’s TikTok account, like “Can you ever forgive?” and “Do you think the Holocaust could happen again?” This crucial testimony deserves a wide audience. - Copyright 2025 Booklist.
