For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?

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.

Tova Friedman, 86, is one of a dwindling number of survivors sharing their message on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025.

Tova Friedman, 86, is one of a dwindling number of survivors sharing their message on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025.

Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman on Monday recalled of the horrors of Auschwitz at a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Soviet troops.

Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman, 85, prepares to record a TikTok video with her grandson, 17-year-old Aron Goodman, in Morristown, New Jersey, on Monday, March 13, 2023.

May 11—KINGSTON — On Wednesday night at the Friedman Jewish Community Center, Tova Friedman, one of the youngest people to have survived the Holocaust, told about 350 in attendance about the ...

KINGSTON — Tova Friedman is among the youngest people to survive the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. More than 150 members of Mrs. Friedman’s family were murdered in the Holocaust ...

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.