Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live

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Four months after arriving in the camp, Ebert and her two sisters were transferred to a munitions factory near Leipzig, where they worked until liberation by Allied forces from the Death March in 1945. A 98-year-old Holocaust survivor built a massive TikTok following to combat deniers: 'It happened' ".

Though this might seem like an overwhelming challenge, what we can do is advocate for better education on both the Holocaust and contemporary antisemitism. Namaste reader, My name is Yash, and books for me are like a medicine, which removes my ignorance and also helps me in behaving more like a human. The commissioner praised Mrs Ebert for her decades-long engagement as a witness to the Holocaust and her recent turn to TikTok, a platform on which she and her great-grandson Dov Forman have amassed over 1. An act of such kindness serves as a reminder that life is simply a series of moments - that a single act might mean more to someone than we could ever know. 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.

In 1953 Ebert was reunited with her other brother, who had also survived the Nazi camp and slave-labour system. 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. How social media helped a great-grandmother find the family of the man who liberated her from Auschwitz". 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. They allow him the necessary space that he needs for himself because they are not shoving him up against the wall.

Ebert's great grandson Dov Forman received the Points of Light award from the UK Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street, in November 2021, in recognition of exceptional services to Holocaust education. These are a few quotes from the book, “Lily’s Promise,” that I found very appealing and would want to share with you. This sentence best describes how Lily and her two sisters managed to survive the cruel Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald.

Ebert's portrait was one of seven commissioned by Prince Charles for the Royal Collection to remember survivors of the holocaust and as a tribute for the survivors who made their life in Britain. The book, which she co-wrote with her great-grandson, Dov Forman, is permeated by a sense of hope that Lily retains in both her educational work and daily life. Still, there is not a single line in the book where it feels like she has expressed any kind of hatred or malice against any country or religion.

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.Ebert was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to Holocaust education and awareness. 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. For our generation, we can hope for a utopian future - a world in which we learn from atrocities, where hatred and racism no longer exist. 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. Lily Ebert MBE BEM (born 29 December 1923) is a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor, living in London.

Lily tracks the occasions on which simple moments of kindness from strangers enabled her to cultivate her sense of hope. Dov, equally committed to sharing Lily’s story, is leading the way as a role-model for young people across the world for Holocaust education and remembrance.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. 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. And I want to change this, and books are a weapon which is helping me, so that I can help others and my nation.