Fantastic story! The narrator did a wonderful job with this book! The story is full of hope love and resilience. I read the book at first and then I listened to the audiobook and it was great!

.Tova telling her story as a young child makes this book so much more compelling. It is a book of memories. Horribly painful but perceived through a child’s eyes. There is a bit of a detached quality as she tells of the horrors, but I liked the honesty that came through. As a child, why wouldn’t she remove herself emotionally from what she witnessed? This is an important book that should be read by many. Rarely do we experience the mind of a child living in a concentration camp. It brought out emotions that I could empathize with in a different perspective. A must read.

This was a really hard but important read. It was heartbreaking and moving. I believe this is a must read!

The Daughter of Auschwitz is a beautiful and heartbreaking memoir, describing the author's experience growing up during the Holocaust. Tova's early childhood was spent in the Jewish ghetto in Poland, and later, the concentration camps. She experienced so much tragedy in her young life. Her courage and resilience in the face of so much pain is awe-inspiring. I am so thankful that she shared her story. This should be required reading.

Tova Fieldman did an amazing job translating her experience in ghettos and concentration camps as a child from real life experience to pen on paper.

I'm normally not a fan of descriptive writing, but in this instance it serves a purpose. You are brought back to her child seeing, feeling and smelling what she did. It can be a little intense at times, and it should. It should make use uncomfortable to read the dehumanizing way Tova and so many others were treated.

Thank you netgalley the privilege of reading this A.R.C.

I read a lot of WWII-era books, and I particularly enjoy the nonfiction ones. This story is about Tova, a young survivor of Auschwitz. It's an emotional read, as one would likely expect. It's heartbreaking to read what people, including the children, went through. It's an important read, as this is a part of history that should never be forgotten.

Holy moly. What a book. When reading the description of The Daughter of Auschwitz, I knew this would be a difficult one to read, but it was so much more than I imagined. I’ve read many books about the Holocaust, both fiction and nonfiction, but reading about Tova’s experiences and her resilience, and the indomitable strength of her mother opened my eyes even wider to the horrors of this genocide. Thank you, Tova, for sharing your story. It is one that must be read.

The Daughter of Auschwitz by Tova Friedman was a book that look back at the Holocaust from a child’s view and how she survived her time during that time in history and how now as an adult she want people to remember and not make the same mistakes. Because the book was the memory of a very young child it really did not have a lot about what actually what was going on back then just her memories from the views of a six year old and what she had heard as she grew older so the book was a different perspective but very hard to relate too. Personally, I like the stories from the adults who survived who can paint a picture of life of a daily basis and make you feel like you were there. I just did not get as emotionally involved in Tova’s story as I have in others because she was so young and even as an adult she did not tell her story with as much emotion as I have read in other books. Also, a lot of the book was about her life when she got to the US and I lost interest in that.
Overall, this book was just ok for me and that is why I am giving it three out of five stars.

Incredible. Terrifying. Bone chilling. Horrific.
I read Friedman’s memoir in awe. I was awe struck that as a young child she survived so much. I’m awestruck that she was able to function normally after such a warped horrible childhood. And I’m awestruck that she still sees good in the world.
Another incredible person was her mother. She was calm and collected thorough six years of absolute hell. It was sad to read that her chutzpah left her after they arrived in the US.
This book is an absolute must read.

At the age of six, Tova and her mother were liberated from the Auschwitz concentration camp. One of the youngest survivors, this book outlines her life before, during, and after WWII.

Powerfully moving, this was a strong and well written book. It is hard to believe that such a young child could come through such horrors and thrive. Alongside her story is the powerful message that the world cannot forget what happened. Tova is not only a survivor, but a living testament. Overall, 5 out of 5 stars.

This is the true story of Tova Friedman one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz. She was only 4 years old when she was sent to the first camp with her parents after the Jewish ghetto they lived in in Poland was liquidated. She was almost 6 when her and her mother were separated from her father and sent to the extermination camp Auschwitz II or Birkenau as we know it, her father was sent to Dachau.
Tova vividly describes the horrors she witnessed during her stay in the camp. Horrors no young child should ever see. She was left on her own to roam the camp with other children while their mothers worked long hours slaving for the Nazis. When the end of the war came and the Nazis were clearing the camp, preparing to flee before the Russian troops arrived Tova's mother hid her amongst the dead, saving both of their lives by avoiding going on the Nazis' final death march.
It is horrifying reading Tova's story, to read how casually the young Tova viewed death, not afraid of hiding snuggled up tight with a corpse because as she said, why be afraid of the dead woman, the dead wouldn't hurt her. No, not like the alive Nazis would. These experiences are so beyond what I can comprehend, reading her story, her words as she describes what life was like for her. One of her first memories being in the ghetto and her always hidden underneath a table with a tablecloth, this is where she spent most of her young days. The train ride in the cattle cars, just everything, it is like reading a horror story. I cried and cried for the young Tova and the loss of innocence. I feel as she did, that these stories need to continue to be told, that we need to be reminded of these horrific events, we need to be vigilant and aware so that this history is never again repeated. This book should be on everyone's required reading list.
Thank you to Harlequin Trade Publishing, Hanover Square Press and Net Galley for the free ARC, I am leaving my honest review in return.

Tola (now Tova) Friedman was a young child when the Second World War began. She and her parents lived in Poland, in a small town called Tomaszow Mazowiecki. In this memoir, she relates her experiences from ghetto to work camp to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She concludes by detailing her post-war life, including the anti-Semitism her family experienced in Poland, driving them to emigrate to the United States and then to Israel.

What an incredible, emotional experience I had reading this memoir. Tola was one of only five Jewish children from her town who lived through the Holocaust. I’ve read a lot of memoirs about the Holocaust, but I have not read one like this before. Tola’s memories are so sharp, even though she was only a young child at the time. Where she couldn’t remember what happened to her family, she inserted pieces she learned from her father or mother, or from her father’s book that he wrote, chronicling his experiences and those of the Jewish community from Tomaszow Mazowiecki.

In her prologue, Tova writes, “Two-thirds of people who were interviewed [in a survey in Sept 2020] had no idea how many Jews died in the Holocaust. Almost half couldn’t name a single concentration camp or ghetto. Twenty-three percent believed the Holocaust was a myth or had been exaggerated. Seventeen percent said it was acceptable to hold neo-Nazi views.” These numbers are terrifying, and I can only hope that Tova’s experiences help people to understand the truth of the Holocaust. Read this book. It’s going to be a difficult read, but a necessary one.

This is the true story of a woman who spent years in a concentration camp. She was a young child when she was sent to the camp but despite most children being sent to the gas chambers upon arrival, she survived. This is a compelling story that depicts the horror survivors endured. Never forget. Thank you to net galley for an advanced readers copy..

Thank you to Harlequin Trade Publishing, Hanover Square Press, and NetGaley for allowing me to read and review this digital ARC of The Daughter of Auschwitz.

I will always read books about the Holocaust. I was raised Jewish and this is so much a part of my history. This story is about Tova, one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz. It will make you gasp, cry and really feel for what is was like during this horrific event as a child