00:00I had no name. My name was 27,633.
00:09This video of Tova Friedman has more than 8 million views on TikTok.
00:13As a toddler, she survived the Auschwitz extermination camp,
00:17the place where the Nazis murdered around 1 million people, mostly Jews, in the 1940s.
00:26We stood there naked for a number of hours, freezing, absolutely freezing.
00:32Tova's nephew Aaron came up with the idea of telling his grandmother's story on TikTok.
00:37I saw so much anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial and misinformation about the Holocaust on TikTok specifically.
00:44And because I was familiar with the algorithm,
00:47I thought it would be the best place to start talking about the Holocaust and sharing the truth,
00:52the reality of what the Holocaust was.
00:55Everything started with an open call for TikTok users to ask Tova Friedman questions in 2021.
01:02Comment any questions you would like her to answer.
01:04Over the next couple of days, we started getting thousands and thousands of questions.
01:09So from then on, we just started trying to answer as many as possible.
01:14Today, the account has more than 500,000 followers.
01:17The videos have received over 10 million likes from all over the world.
01:21Well, to me, it was the reaching of teenagers that I couldn't reach any other way.
01:27TikTok is like, oh, those kids are out there somewhere, most of them not Jewish,
01:32and they just scroll.
01:34And when they stop and they listen, and not only do they listen, but they ask questions.
01:40To me, it was a very gratifying way.
01:43In addition to likes, however, the TikTok account is also targeted with hate speech.
01:49Aaron Goodman will not accept that open anti-Semitism is becoming normalized.
01:54It's the hatred and the misinformation that motivates me to keep doing this work,
01:58because it's proof that what we are doing is important and needs to be done.
02:02So, let's go ahead and see if we can see if we can see if we can see if we
02:05can see if we can see if we can see if we can see if we can see if we
02:05can see if we can see if we can see if we can see if we can see if we
02:05can see if we can see if we can see if we can see if we can see if we
02:06can see if we can see if we can see if we can see if we can see if we
02:06can see if we can see if we can see if we can see if we can see it.
02:06You
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