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Tova Ben Zvi
Israeli singer and Holocaust survivor (1928–2020) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tova Ben Zvi (Hebrew: טובה בן-צבי; 1928 – 16 September 2020) was an Israeli singer and a survivor of the Holocaust.
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Life and career
Ben Zvi was born in 1928 in Łódź, where she lived in the ghetto.[1] Her father was a Jewish cantor.[2] After the ghetto began to be emptied, she was sent to Auschwitz.[2] Later she would find out that she was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust.[2] After World War II ended, she went to study literature at the University of Jerusalem.[2] Ben Zvi released her first album in 1959.[2] She sings folk music in Yiddish and many of her songs are about reconciliation.[3][4][5][6]
In 2009, Świat Tovy, a Polish documentary about her life, was released.[7] The thirty-minute film was directed by Michał Bukojemski.[7] Ben Zvi was awarded the title of Człowiek Pojednania (Man of Reconciliation) by the Polish Council of Christians and Jews.[5]
Ben Zvi died on 16 September 2020.[8]
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