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Tova Friedman

Tova Friedman

American therapist and social worker

Jul 15, 2026

7:13
Right.
7:15
So she, she came back, and within no time, they took my s- suitcase away, they took our clothes, which we left by the tree, and we started walking to some place where they shaved my head, and I had no more hair left.
7:35
And I had braids.
7:37
So I remember the woman, I was so small, that she picked me up, and she put me on a bench, and she said to me, "You poor child." Again, I don't know the language, but she was Jewish, obviously.
7:51
She herself had no hair, no, no, no, no hair.
7:55
So I came to find my mother.
7:56
There were all these women without hair, and the floor was full of, of hair that you stand on.
11:56
It's, it's, I, I, I'm, uh, if you're comfortable sharing, you can tell another story, for sure.
6:10
Mm-hmm.
6:10
Michael and Rose.
6:12
Um- When they met, the first stipulation was my mother said, "I'm not wearing a sheitel." And he said, "Good, I don't want you to wear a sheitel." So she went home, and she told her mother, her father had died, "I'm not wearing a sheitel." They said, "No way.
6:33
You have to wear a sheitel.
6:35
You're part of our family." So what's interesting is they got married, but they left right away.
6:45
They had to leave town in order so that my mother's family should not be upset the way they lived.

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44:12
Okay.
44:12
But she stayed.

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