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, and where Tova Friedman nearly lost her ...

I hope I was worthy,” he said to applause. Tova Friedman, an 86-year-old Auschwitz survivor, was at the death camp from age 5 to 6 before she was liberated alongside 7,000 other prisoners.

Tova Friedman of Highland Park knows the reality of antisemitism. She lived it as a child survivor of Auschwitz. This week, she marked 80 years since her liberation from the concentration camp.

Tova Friedman has the demeanor of someone with little time to waste. There's an economy to her words, but the directness with which she speaks doesn't in any way minimize the power of her message: ...