Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman speaks in the Bundestag
Auschwitz death camp was liberated 81 years ago. Tova Friedman survived the horrors and is speaking in the Bundestag today.
Berlin (dpa) – On Wednesday, the Bundestag will remember the victims of the Nazi regime with a traditional commemorative ceremony. The commemorative address will be delivered this year by Polish-American therapist and social worker Tova Friedman. Born in 1938 in Gdynia near Gdansk, Friedman is Jewish and survived the German extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland as a child. She is one of the few remaining living witnesses and survivors of the National Socialists’ delusional racial ideology and programme of mass murder. Together with her grandson Aron, Friedman runs a TikTok channel on which she posts reels with the aim of keeping the memory of the Shoah alive among young people. The channel has more than 500,000 followers.
The ceremony is being held on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is observed every year on 27 January to mark the liberation of Auschwitz. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Bundestag President Julia Klöckner are also expected to attend. The programme of music will be provided by Jewish star pianist Igor Levit, who will perform a piece about the Warsaw Ghetto.
