Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. A couple of days ago, I was talking about

Ruby Bridges on here and saying how wild it is that she's not even that old and how history can sometimes

seem so long ago, but it actually isn't. Well, that's especially true for today's episode.

It's an interview between NPR Scott

Simon and Tova Friedman, a Holocaust survivor who just put out a new memoir titled The Daughter of Auschwitz.

And there's a moment in this interview where she talks about how, after she managed to survive

Auschwitz, an American doctor offered to remove the tattoo she was forced to get on her arm.

And she refused because she says people should know.

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Distant wars, murky conflicts, diplomacy behind closed doors on our new show, sources and methods.

NPR reporters on the ground bring you stories of real people,

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Oh.

Tova Friedman's memoir helps us see the Holocaust not only as a monstrous crime of history,

but puts us inside the life and eyes of a little girl living in a ghetto of central Poland,

who was sent to a Nazi labor camp and even a gas chamber and has somehow lived to tell her extraordinary story.

She still has a number on her left forum.

A27633.

Tova Friedman's book, The Daughter of Auschwitz, My Story of Resilience, Survival, and Hope,

written with the veteran correspondent Malcolm Brabent,

and Tova Friedman joins us from London.

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