Tova Friedman, 86, ... (48%) were unable to name a single ghetto or concentration camp − even Auschwitz-Birkenau, where Anne Frank was taken after she and her family were discovered, ...

Tova Friedman, 86, ... (48%) were unable to name a single ghetto or concentration camp − even Auschwitz-Birkenau, where Anne Frank was taken after she and her family were discovered, ...

Survivors and relatives place candles near the Death Wall during a ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27 ...

World News Auschwitz memorial holds observances on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation Among those who traveled to the site is 86-year-old Tova Friedman, who was 6 when she was ...

Tova arrived at the extermination camp at the age of just five years old. She now speaks to young people in person and via TikTok about how she survived a year in Auschwitz as a very young child.

A survivor reacts at the Death Wall during the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland January 27, 2025.

Tova Friedman, who was 2 years old when she was taken to the camp at Auschwitz, is the youngest of the survivors. “We were victims in a moral vacuum,” she told delegates.

Emotional Auschwitz survivors used the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation as a warning to the world: push back against rising hatred of Jews – or risk sliding into darker times.

Polish President Andrzej Duda kneels in front of the Death Wall at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, during a ceremony in Oswiecim, Poland, on Jan. 27 ...