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

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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. [16] [17] 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. Frazer, Jenni. "Arise, Sir Ephraim! Chief Rabbi leads record-breaking honours list for the community". www.jewishnews.co.uk . Retrieved 31 December 2022.

Holocaust Memorial Day: Portraits of last remaining UK survivors unveiled". BBC News. 27 January 2022 . Retrieved 27 January 2022.Rosa, Joanne. "Auschwitz survivor and great-grandson teach TikTok about realities of Holocaust". ABC News . Retrieved 10 February 2022. We can interpret ‘One Day’, the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2022, in a number of ways. 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.

Prime Minister honours teen who co-wrote great-grandmother's Auschwitz memoir". Jewish News UK. 1 December 2021 . Retrieved 10 February 2022.

The phrase “Together we stand, divided we fall.” This sentence best describes how Lily and her two sisters managed to survive the cruel Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald. I highly recommend this book to all readers. The language is easy to read. It also contains several photographs of Lily and her family. I also suggest readers read this book on the Holocaust, The Tattooist Of Auschwitz. Ford, Lily (27 April 2022). "Holocaust survivor, 98, 'so touched' to receive Hungarian national honour". Evening Standard. PA . Retrieved 27 April 2022. Lily Ebert MBE BEM (born 29 December 1923) is a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor, living in London.

How social media helped a great-grandmother find the family of the man who liberated her from Auschwitz". www.panmacmillan.com.As a Holocaust survivor, Lily has experienced the worst of humanity. 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. Forgive, but don’t forget—that’s the message she gave through her story. 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. [1] 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. [1] Though the word “hope” is just a four-letter word, But its power and impact are just amazing. The same Mrs. Ebert mentioned it several times in her story. In fact, it’s the hope that keeps one alive when everything seems to be falling apart. 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. But she would also ensure that whatever happened to them wouldn’t happen to anyone again.

Jews like Lily were only numbers to the Nazis. They consequently had a number inked on their arm. They used it as a strategy to make individuals feel less human. On her left forearm, Lily Engelman (her pre-marriage name) has the tattoo with the number A-10572. When Ebert was liberated in 1945, she met US soldier Hayman Shulman. With no paper to hand, he scribbled a message of hope onto a German banknote and gave it to Lily. 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. [10] Auschwitz was hell on earth. We must never forget its horrors' ". standard.co.uk. 2020 . Retrieved 14 August 2021. Family and loyal friends are highly significant to a person who has suffered a lot in life. They allow him the necessary space that he needs for himself because they are not shoving him up against the wall. It would be impossible for that human to survive otherwise. Also, Lily Ebert’s family never forced her to tell them her story against her will.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. [8] Ebert and Forman have also appeared on international radio and television, giving interviews to over 180 news outlets in more than 35 countries. 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. [18] year old Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert receives MBE from King Charles". www.thejc.com. The Jewish Chronicle. 2023 . Retrieved 1 February 2023. Egan, Elisabeth (26 May 2022). "Dov Forman Wants You to Know His Great-Grandmother's Holocaust Story". The New York Times . Retrieved 29 May 2022. Ebert was born in Bonyhád, Hungary. She was the eldest daughter in a family of six children. [1] The Holocaust [ edit ]