Summary of Tova Friedman & Malcolm Brabant's The Daughter of Auschwitz

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#1 The block elder, a woman in charge of the block, was Jewish. She was given extra food by the Nazis in return for carrying out their orders. I was afraid of her, but without her, there was chaos.

#2 One day, I was with the other children in the barracks when a woman I didn’t recognize came in. She was emaciated, and her features were distorted by malnutrition. But it was my mama. She told me that the Nazis were rounding up people to walk to Germany. Maybe you will make it. You might survive the march. But this is not a world for children. I don’t want you to survive alone.

#3 I had always lived in a world where being Jewish meant you were destined to die. I had never known freedom, and my survival depended on my ability to judge the mood of my captors.

#4 I was terrified of the German shepherds, and their handlers, who were bigger than I was. I never looked in the eyes of the SS, the elite military corps that were made up of the most fanatical Nazis.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350026177

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Insights on Tova Friedman & Malcolm Brabant's The Daughter of Auschwitz

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

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Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 23

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I could hear the German guards yelling at the tops of their voices. I despised their guttural language. I was terrified whenever the Germans opened their mouths. I never heard German spoken softly, it was always harsh and alien.

#2

I sat on my haunches, wiggling my toes on the warm bricks to extract the maximum amount of comfort. The children in my block had been left without food, and they were starving.

#3

The block elder was in a rush to leave, so she didn’t bother to count us or secure the door. We were all scared and confused, but a woman named Mama came to visit us. She was supposed to be in the women’s section, but she had somehow gotten transferred to our block.

#4

I had always lived in a world where being Jewish meant you were destined to die. I had never known freedom, and my survival depended on my ability to judge the mood of my captors.

#5

I was scared of the German shepherds, and their slobbering and drooling. I had learned to suppress my emotions, as Mama had taught me, and I never looked at the Nazis’ faces.

#6