Tova Ben Zvi

Tova Ben Zvi was born in 1928 in Łódź

Tova Ben Zvi was born in 1928 in Łódź, Poland. Her father was a Jewish cantor. She lived in the Łódź ghetto and was later sent to Auschwitz, and she was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust.

After World War II she studied literature at the University of Jerusalem. From 1965 to 1966 she worked as a teacher at the Nitzanim elementary school in Ramat Gan.

She became known in the 1950s after recording the song "Ein Gedi" with singer Shmuel Bar-Zakai, released in 1959. She recorded children's albums, songs of the Land of Israel and Yiddish songs, and was the first to record Manger's "Oyfn Veg Shteyt a Boym" in Hebrew. In 1997 she released albums of songs from the Holocaust and the Łódź ghetto, dedicated to her family.

She often performed abroad and also guided tour groups, giving sung lectures in Israel with her own slides. In 2009 a Polish documentary about her life was released, and the Polish Council of Christians and Jews named her a Person of Reconciliation. She died on 16 September 2020.