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When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert BEM published her book in 2021, it became an instant Sunday Times Bestseller, widely celebrated as an incredibly powerful account of her story. Ebert and Forman have collaborated with various departments of the UK Government (including the Department for Education, the Foreign Office, the Home Office and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) and in November 2020, they spoke at the UK Parliament in favour of the UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre.
In 1953 Ebert was reunited with her other brother, who had also survived the Nazi camp and slave-labour system.
An American soldier handed Lily a bank note, inked with the words ‘a start to a new life - good luck and happiness’. In 2022, after a viral social media campaign, the family of Private Shulman were located, resulting in the meeting between Lily and the children of the soldier who liberated her. Ebert and Forman were awarded with the community award, from Andrew Neil, at the Jewish Care and Topland business lunch in March 2022, at the Grosvenor House Hotel. The family emigrated to Israel where she married and had three children, before settling in London in 1967. Ebert's mother Nina, younger brother Bela, and younger sister Berta were immediately sent to the gas chambers, whilst Ebert and her two other sisters, Renee and Piri, were selected for work in the camp.
Lily's Promise is a five-time Sunday Times Best-Seller and was the Waterstones best history book of 2021.
When the portraits were released in the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace Ebert told Charles "Meeting you, it is for everyone who lost their lives. For example, it can prompt us to think about one day in the future and how we can empower future generations to carry forward the lessons we must learn from the Holocaust and the testimony of survivors. In fact, the book’s title, Lily’s Promise, refers to a promise Lily made to herself on Yom Kippur in 1944: if she survived the Nazis’ brutality, she would not only tell the world her story.
This sentence best describes how Lily and her two sisters managed to survive the cruel Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald. The Nazis invaded Hungary in March 1944, and, in July 1944, when Ebert was 20 years old, she along with her mother, younger brother and three sisters were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
million followers, it has received over 25 million ‘likes’ and their top 5 most popular videos have collectively been viewed by over 50 million people. Ebert and Forman have also appeared on international radio and television, giving interviews to over 180 news outlets in more than 35 countries. Lily’s Promise, How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live is Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert’s inspiring memoir. Ebert was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to Holocaust education and awareness. million followers), so it made sense that he would help her keep a promise to tell the world what she had endured.
The Holocaust not only killed the people who died during the war, more people than the mind can take in, but also killed something in everybody who lived through it. At a ceremony in the Austrian parliament, Ebert was given the award for civic engagement against antisemitism and for education about the Holocaust. Stories of victims trading food for the Torah, or still finding time for regular prayer show us that many people demonstrated immense resilience and determination to keep going, in spite of all the darkness they faced. In 2023 the volume of Shemot (Hebrew name for the Book of Exodus) with the signature of Lily Ebert's younger brother Bela, who was murdered in Auschwitz, was found.Despite the trauma and horrors of the experiences that Lily relays, there is always an underlying message of hope. Forman, who is 18, described “the queen of our family” as being “very much involved in everyone’s life, wanting to know what everyone is getting up to.
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