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Amanpour

An Auschwitz survivor's painful, important memoir

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

From Bosnia to Syria to Ukraine, war crimes are an all-too-common reality wherever conflict arises. The failed promise of “never again” after the Holocaust rings hollow time and time again, and with fewer survivors living to tell the tale with every passing year, testimonies like today's first guest become more vital than ever. Tova Friedman was just five years old when she was taken to Auschwitz, where several members of her family were killed. Now she is sharing her life story in a new memoir, The Daughter of Auschwitz. She joins the program alongside her co-author, journalist Malcolm Brabant, to discuss what compelled her to tell her story now, in all its painful details.  Also on today's show: Johanna Hamilton & Yoruba Richen, co-directors of the new documentary, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks; AOL co-founder Steve Case. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

You know they say you first burn books and then you burned people.

0:13.4

A warning from the daughter of Auschwitz.

0:15.8

Tova Friedman survived the Holocaust as a little girl.

0:19.1

Now she joins me to share her extraordinary tale along with co-author Malcolm Brabant, also ahead.

0:25.6

I felt that I had a mess, but people did not choose to listen to what I was saying.

0:31.4

A warning from the past by a woman at the heart of America's

0:34.8

struggle for civil rights. A long overdue look at the life and work of the

0:39.5

rebellious Mrs Rosa Parks. I'm joined by the documentary's co-directors, Joanna Hamilton and Yeruba Ritchie.

0:46.2

Plus...

0:47.2

We're trying to level the playing field not just in terms of place but also in terms of people.

0:51.2

AOL co-founder Steve Case tells Walter Isington

0:54.7

about his mission to bring entrepreneurship

0:57.1

back to America's heartland. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpour in London. From Bosnia to

1:17.1

Syria to Ukraine, war crimes, the ugliest side of war, are an all too common reality wherever conflict arises.

1:25.7

The failed promise of never again after the Holocaust ringing hollow time and time again.

1:32.2

And with fewer survivors living to tell the tale with every passing year,

1:36.0

testimonies like my first guests become more vital than ever.

1:40.0

Tova Friedman was just five years old when she was shipped to Auschwitz

1:45.1

where several members of her family were killed. Somehow Tova survived and at 84

1:50.9

she's one of the youngest survivors of the Nazi extermination camp. Now she's sharing

1:56.1

it all in a new memoir called The Daughter of Auschwitz, which went straight to number two on the

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