Surviving Auschwitz
Seventy years ago, in the waning months of World War II, two young girls from a Jewish ghetto in the heart of Poland were liberated from Adolf Hitler’s most notorious death camp Auschwitz. At 6 and 10, Tova Friedman and Frieda Tenenbaum were among the youngest of 7,000 prisoners found alive by a regiment of the Soviet army. In the summer of 2004, they journeyed to Auschwitz, accompanied by their own children and a WGVU film crew. Together, they faced the sorrow and the tragedy of their past and sought to heal the wounds felt through two generations. Surviving Auschwitz Children of the Shoah includes photographs and film footage of the girls and other children like them held at Auschwitz, as well as interviews with the two women and their children as they walk the grounds of the infamous death camp.
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