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

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Lily Ebert MBE BEM (born 29 December 1923) is a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor, living in London.

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. 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.On 31 January 2023, in an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle, she received the award from King Charles III.

This sentence best describes how Lily and her two sisters managed to survive the cruel Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald.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. 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. Lily’s Promise, How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live is Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert’s inspiring memoir. Though this might seem like an overwhelming challenge, what we can do is advocate for better education on both the Holocaust and contemporary antisemitism.

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. The latter not only survived the Holocaust but, after the deaths of her mother, brother, and sister in Auschwitz-Birkenau, like a brave warrior, rebuilt her life and shared her tale with all of humanity with the message of love, not hate. In 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, with her great grandson Dov Forman, Ebert co-authored The Sunday Times Best-Seller Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live, which includes a foreword by King Charles. A 98-year-old Holocaust survivor built a massive TikTok following to combat deniers: 'It happened' ".

In 1953 Ebert was reunited with her other brother, who had also survived the Nazi camp and slave-labour system. Also in 2021, Ebert and Forman used the TikTok video sharing platform, gaining more than a million followers for clips in which Ebert answers people's questions about surviving the Holocaust, when she was a prisoner at Auschwitz concentration camp. Lily tracks the occasions on which simple moments of kindness from strangers enabled her to cultivate her sense of hope. 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 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. They allow him the necessary space that he needs for himself because they are not shoving him up against the wall.