tova friedman, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.reat pleasure to have you with me here in this synagogue. i am mindful that it is 77 years since you, as a six—year—old girl, were finally freed from auschwitz. why have you chosen to tell the world your story in the form of a memoir now? well, i've been speaking for a very long time, since i was about a5, 50 years old, i've been speaking about it. but i always wanted to write because writing is a different experience. and i can tell things that i cannot tell when i'm speaking for 45 minutes to a group. this is like — i can think about it and bring, bring out the essence of what really happened. i sort of looked around and i saw the world is... it's really a mess, i hate to say that. anti—semitism and hatred, and left against right, and right — itjust... refugees are wandering the world trying to find a home, everywhere from country to country. and i said, "you know, this is a good time for..." ..in my age also, because i am at an age where i can't wait too much longer to tell my story