At a terrifying and horrifying presentation in Sag Harbor, Long Island yesterday by a woman who survived the Holocaust, co-author of the book “The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope,” there were audience members who stood to cite as antisemitism both the storming by anti-Israel activists this month of a Jewish-owned restaurant in Sag Harbor and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s seeking to have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested if he comes to the city to attend a UN session in September.

Tova Friedman, now 87, was a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp as a young girl. She was taken to a gas chamber there, but on that day it didn’t work.

She gave her presentation at the Center for Jewish Life – Chabad. She was introduced by Rabbi Berel Lerman who said: “We are, sadly, living in times of rising antisemitism. It’s not just ancient Jewish history. It’s history that has unfolded before our eyes.” That included, he said, the October 7th attack on Israel. “It’s very important that we have the right source of information, the truth. The best way to fight darkness is with the light.” He described Friedman as “one of the greatest sources of information” on the Holocaust.

Mark Moskowitz of the American Society for Holocaust Education and Remembrance then spoke about a trip by the society this April to “that dreadful place”—Auschwitz—during which Friedman accompanied participants and told of what happened there.

In her presentation, Friedman said in the........

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