טובה בן־צבי

Tova Ben Zvi (Hebrew: טובה בן-צבי; 1928 – 16 September 2020) was an Israeli singer and a survivor of the Holocaust. Ben Zvi was born in 1928 in Łódź, where she lived in the ghetto. Her father was a Jewish cantor. After the ghetto began to be emptied, she was sent to Auschwitz. Later she would find out that she was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. After World War II ended, she went to study literature at the University of Jerusalem. Ben Zvi released her first album in 1959. She sings folk music in Yiddish and many of her songs are about reconciliation. In 2009, Świat Tovy, a Polish documentary about her life, was released. The thirty-minute film was directed by Michał Bukojemski. Ben Zvi was awarded the title of Człowiek Pojednania (Man of Reconciliation) by the Polish Council of Christians and Jews. Ben Zvi died on 16 September 2020. "Tova Ben-Zvi". Kawiarnia Literatka (in Polish). 2009. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2018. Zaradniak, Marek (4 May 2012). "Tova Ben Zvi gości w Poznaniu". Gloswielkopolski.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 2018-06-29. "Israeli Folk Singer Planning Concert". The Miami News. 21 February 1969. Retrieved 2018-06-29 – via Newspapers.com. "Folk Singer At Center". The Akron Beacon Journal. 1 February 1969. Retrieved 2018-06-29 – via Newspapers.com. Turnau, Jan (8 March 2009). "U popadii Katarzyny". Gazeta.Pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 12 August 2017. Retrieved 2018-06-29. Schellen, Petra (2010-10-31). "Nicht-Jüdin über das Jiddische: "Die Angst steckt noch in jeder Zelle"". Die Tageszeitung: taz (in German). ISSN 0931-9085. Retrieved 2018-06-29. "Wrocław: Spotkanie z Tova Ben-Zvi w Literatce". Gloswielkopolski.pl (in Polish). 30 June 2009. Archived from the original on 30 March 2014. Retrieved 2018-06-29. "טובה בן-צבי". Zamereshet. Retrieved 4 February 2025. Tova's World (English subtitles)