The unforgettable True Story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto, and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi law prohibiting childbirth.
A moving, powerful chronicle of overcoming impossible odds , The Forbidden Daughter is the True Story of one unforgettable woman and her will to survive..
In her lifelong pursuit to find love and belonging, she works to rebuild her identity and triumph over her terrible circumstances.
Surviving the war and the Holocaust that stole her parents, the young woman never gives up hope.
Despite her circumstances, Elida grows up, changing families, countries, continents, and even names, countless times.
Their only child is left orphaned and alone, dependent on the kindness of strangers.
When the Nazis raze the entire Kovno Ghetto, Jonah and Tzila are among those killed.
It is the beginning of a life marked by constant upheaval.
To increase their child\'s chance of survival, the Friedmans smuggle the baby out of the ghetto and into the arms of a non-Jewish farm family when Elida is only three months old.
Jonah Friedman and his wife Tzila, choose to bring a daughter into the world, a little girl they name Elida--meaning non-birth in Hebrew.
Yet despite the fear of death, Dr.
In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth.
Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born.
The unforgettable True Story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto, and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi law prohibiting childbirth
