Höß, Rudolph (1959). Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Höß. Translated by FitzGibbon, Constantine. Cleveland OH: World Publishing Company.

This is the true story of Tova Friedman one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz. She was only 4 years old when she was sent to the first camp with her parents after the Jewish ghetto they lived in in Poland was liquidated. She was almost 6 when her and her mother were separated from her father and sent to the extermination camp Auschwitz II or Birkenau as we know it, her father was sent to Dachau.Fitzgibbon, Constantine; Hoess, Rudolf; Neugroschel, Joachim; Hoess, Rudolph; Levi, Primo (1 September 2000). Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess. Phoenix. ISBN 978-1842120248. Her co-author is our very own Malcolm Brabant. And we are just delighted to have them joining us from London.

Paul R. Bartrop (2014). Rudolf Hoess. p.111. ISBN 978-1610693318 . Retrieved 27 February 2015. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help)This was a true story vs. a historical fiction. The author wants to make sure that no one ever forgets what happened during the holocaust, and as human beings, we never should! Levy, Richard S. (2005). Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution (Two Vol. Set). ABC-CLIO. p.324. ISBN 978-1-85109-439-4. Primomo, John W. (2020). Architect of death at Auschwitz: a biography of Rudolf Höss. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. pp.76–79. ISBN 978-1-4766-8146-7. OCLC 1133655190. And Malcolm, I think one of the hardest things for me to read about, of the many, was the complicity of the non-German, the Poles and others, they were not Nazis, but they went along silently or otherwise, with what the Nazis were doing. a b Harding, Thomas (7 September 2013). "Hiding in N. Virginia, a daughter of Auschwitz". Washington Post . Retrieved 11 April 2023.

This is really one of the key lessons, I think, of the Holocaust, which is that if you stand aside and you don’t do anything, then disaster and murder and genocide takes place. And the worst thing of all is complicity. And at the time there was an awful lot of antisemitism in Poland. Not everybody in Poland was antisemitic, there were lots of people who actually fought really hard, but in the town that Tova came from, it was quite bad. Günther Maria Halmer took on the role of Höss in the 1988-89 American television miniseries War and Remembrance. PeterApplebome (14 March 2007). "Veteran of the Nuremberg Trials Can't Forget Dialogue With Infamy". The New York Times . Retrieved 15 March 2007. The earliest inmates at Auschwitz were Soviet prisoners-of-war and Polish prisoners, including peasants and intellectuals. Some 700 arrived in June 1940, and were told they would not survive more than three months. [35] At its peak, Auschwitz comprised three separate facilities: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Auschwitz III-Monowitz. These included many satellite sub-camps, and the entire camp was built on about 8,000 hectares (20,000 acres) that had been cleared of all inhabitants. [28] Auschwitz I was the administrative centre for the complex; Auschwitz II Birkenau was the extermination camp where most of the murders were committed; and Auschwitz III Monowitz was the slave-labour camp for I.G. Farbenindustrie AG, and later other German industries. The main purpose of Monowitz was the production of buna, a form of synthetic rubber. Höss experimented with various gassing methods. According to Eichmann's trial testimony in 1961, Höss told him that he used cotton filters soaked in sulfuric acid for early killings. Höss later introduced hydrogen cyanide (prussic acid), produced from the pesticide Zyklon B, to the process of extermination, after his deputy Karl Fritzsch had tested it on a group of Russian prisoners in 1941. [8] [7] With Zyklon B, he said that it took 3–15 minutes for the victims to die and that "we knew when the people were dead because they stopped screaming." [45] In an interview at Nuremberg after the war, Höss commented that, after observing the prisoners die by Zyklon B, " ...this gassing set my mind at rest for the mass extermination of the Jews was to start soon." [46]I can no longer remember the figures for the smaller actions, but they were insignificant by comparison with the numbers given above. I regard a total of 2.5 million as far too high. Even Auschwitz had limits to its destructive capabilities. a b c d e f Prof. Douglas O. Linder, "Testimony of Rudolf Höß at the Nuremberg Trials, April 15, 1946" available online at Famous World Trials: The Nuremberg Trials: 1945–48, UMKC School of Law. OCLC 45390347 It is horrifying reading Tova's story, to read how casually the young Tova viewed death, not afraid of hiding snuggled up tight with a corpse because as she said, why be afraid of the dead woman, the dead wouldn't hurt her. No, not like the alive Nazis would. These experiences are so beyond what I can comprehend, reading her story, her words as she describes what life was like for her. One of her first memories being in the ghetto and her always hidden underneath a table with a tablecloth, this is where she spent most of her young days. The train ride in the cattle cars, just everything, it is like reading a horror story. I cried and cried for the young Tova and the loss of innocence. I feel as she did, that these stories need to continue to be told, that we need to be reminded of these horrific events, we need to be vigilant and aware so that this history is never again repeated. This book should be on everyone's required reading list. Primomo, John W. (2020). Architect of death at Auschwitz: a biography of Rudolf Höss. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. pp.71, 172. ISBN 978-1-4766-8146-7. OCLC 1133655190.

Thomas Harding (7 September 2013). "Hiding in N. Virginia, a daughter of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding". The Washington Post . Retrieved 8 February 2015. A powerful memoir by one of the youngest ever survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz. In a powerfully written book, THE DAUGHTER OF AUSCHWITZ (Hanover Square Press 2022), Tova Friedman recounts firsthand experiences of how she struggled to survive the most heinous crime of history, the Holocaust. She chronicles her story of survival, under the direst of circumstances, beginning with the Nazi invasion of Poland until her liberation from Auschwitz.

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Höss, Rudolf; Broad, Pery; Kremer, Johann Paul; Bezwińska, Jadwiga; Czech, Danuta (1984). KL Auschwitz seen by the SS. New York: H. Fertig. p. 226. ISBN 978-0-86527-346-7. Primomo, John W. (2020). Architect of death at Auschwitz: a biography of Rudolf Höss. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. pp.69–70. ISBN 978-1-4766-8146-7. OCLC 1133655190.