The Daughter of Auschwitz. My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope

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Plate 1: Tova’s father, Machel Grossman, 1932.

Plate 2: Tova’s mother, Reizel Grossman, 1948.

Plate 3: Machel (seated third from right) with his theater group, circa 1931.

Plate 4: A group of German soldiers and civilians look on as a Jewish man is forced to cut the beard of another in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, 1939.

Plate 5: Saint Wenceslas Church, the site of the selection on October 31, 1942, as the ghetto was liquidated. This building no longer exists.

Plate 6: German soldiers clearing the streets of Tomaszów Mazowiecki after deporting six thousand Jews from the ghetto to Treblinka, 1942.

Plate 7: Tova (in color on the left) and other child survivors display their tattoos to the Russian photographers following liberation from Birkenau, 1945.

Plate 8: Identification card given to Reizel by the International Red Cross to provide safe passage home from Birkenau, 1945.

Plate 9: Tova, age six and a half, returns to Tomaszów Mazowiecki, 1945.

Plate 10: Aunt Helen, shot by an anti-Semitic gang in Lodz in Poland, 1946 (Insert: Tova’s Aunt Helen).

Plate 11: Tova, Reizel and Machel in Landsberg Displaced Persons camp in Germany, 1948.

Plate 12: Tova (seated second from right) with her classmates at Landsberg Displaced Persons camp in Germany, 1950.

Plate 13: Machel and Sonia’s wedding in Israel, 1958.

Plate 14: Tova and Maier’s wedding in Brooklyn, USA, 1960.

Plate 15: Tova with Risa (Ruth), Gadi and Itaya in Israel, circa 1970.

Plate 16: Tova standing among the remains of a gas chamber on her first return to Birkenau, 1999.

Plate 17: Tova, Maier and their eight grandchildren, 2014.

Plate 18: Tova and her family at her grandchildren Ari and Eitan’s Bar Mitzvah, 2014.

Plate 19: Tova’s daughter Ruth and her children.

Plate 20: Tova shares her story at Calvin University’s January Series in Michigan, USA, 2015.

Plate 21: Tova with students at Delaware Valley Regional High School in New Jersey, USA, 2016.

Plate 22: Tova returns to Birkenau with her daughter Itaya and four grandchildren, 2016.

Plate 23: Tova and Maier Friedman, 2019.

Plate 24: Tova attends the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with other survivors, 2020. She is holding hands with Ronald Lauder, the President of the World Jewish Congress.