Tova friedman biography
Who is tova friedman.
Tova Friedman
Holocaust Auschwitz survivor (born 1938)
Tova Friedman (néeTola Grossman; born September 7, 1938) is a Jewish American therapist, social worker, author, and academic born in Poland.
Tova friedman biography
She is a Holocaust survivor who was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Friedman taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and later served as the director of the Jewish Family Service of Somerset and Warren Counties.
Early life
Friedman was born on September 7, 1938, in Gdynia, Poland, close to Gdańsk.[1] Friedman's family had moved from Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland, and returned there as soon as WWII broke out.
Five thousand Jews were forced to live in a ghetto formed of six four-story buildings in terrible conditions. The population of the ghetto decreased over time due to starvation, shootings, and deportations.[2] Her family was later transferred to Starachowice, where her parents worked in an ammunition factory.[1] When children began