Tova Ben Zvi

Tova Ben Zvi was an Israeli singer and a survivor of the Holocaust.

Life and career

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 by the Polish Council of Christians and Jews.
Ben Zvi died on 16 September 2020.