She is a force. Born Tova Grossman in Gdynia, Poland in September 1938, Friedman was only a year old when Poland was invaded by the Nazis. More than 150 members of Friedman’s family were murdered.

They left the camp in April 1945. Her mother uttered one word: "Remember." Tola Grossman is now Tova Friedman. And she's written a deeply vivid and affecting account of her life then and since.

Tova Friedman was just 5 years old when she ... In her new book, Friedman writes that she was born Tola Grossman in Gdynia, Poland, in 1938. World War II would begin a year later.

Six-year-old Tola Grossman — a Polish Jew — could already ... the 84-year-old widow (now called Tova Friedman, who changed her first name to Tova when she moved to America and her surname ...

Never let them see you cry, Reizel Grossman told her daughter. Crying will make you a target. Don’t look a Nazi in the eye. Don't wear a hat or scarf when they are present. These things ...

Shivering and shaking under a thin towel in an Auschwitz gas chamber, Tova Friedman had resigned herself to death. At just six years old, she had seen more horror than most see in a lifetime.