Child survivor to speak at Holocaust remembrance
Tova Friedman, a child survivor of the Holocaust, will tell her story during a program of remembrance and hope at Temple Sholom in Scotch Plains on Sunday, April 27, at 7 p.m. Ms. Friedman was born in 1938 in Tomaszow Lubelski, town in Poland.
The Nazis invaded the next year. When they began targeting the elderly and the children for deportation, her father hid her in a crawlspace above the ceiling of their home. By the time Tova turned 5, her father had been sent to Dachau. In 1944, when she was nearly 6, Tova and her mother were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
After the war Tova and her mother reunited with her father. Theirs was one of the few Jewish families from their hometown to survive the Holocaust. Eventually, the family was able to immigrate to the United States, where Tova rebuilt her life. In 2022, she co-authored the memoir, “The Daughter of Auschwitz.”
The evening concludes with Temple Sholom’s Yom HaShoah service, under the leadership of Cantor Darcie Sharlein. The public is invited, and it will be streamed on Zoom. Call the synagogue office at (908) 889-4900 for the link.
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