Despite the trauma and horrors of the experiences that Lily relays, there is always an underlying message of hope. 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. 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. 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. 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.

We must harness the power of education and remembrance in the hope that, ‘One Day’, everyone will know this message.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. A 98-year-old Holocaust survivor built a massive TikTok following to combat deniers: 'It happened' ".

They allow him the necessary space that he needs for himself because they are not shoving him up against the wall. Lily Ebert MBE BEM (born 29 December 1923) is a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor, living in London. 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. At a ceremony in the Austrian parliament, Ebert was given the award for civic engagement against antisemitism and for education about the Holocaust. Lily’s Promise, How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live is Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert’s inspiring memoir.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. 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. 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. Those conversations, and her detailed, painful, heartbreaking — and, later, meticulously fact-checked — memories of surviving the Holocaust, are the basis of “Lily’s Promise,” which debuted at No. 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.

Ebert and Forman have also appeared on international radio and television, giving interviews to over 180 news outlets in more than 35 countries. 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. While other teenagers played video games and FaceTimed with friends, Forman recorded his great-grandmother’s stories — of hiding a beloved pendant in a piece of bread stashed in her armpit; of receiving a telegram from her long-lost older brother; of holding her first baby and missing her mother, who bravely lit candles in a field during their last Sabbath together. 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.On 31 January 2023, in an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle, she received the award from King Charles III.

The book follows Ebert from her hometown in Hungary to Auschwitz (she fiercely protected two younger sisters after their mother and two other siblings were killed) and then to Switzerland and Israel, where she rebuilt her life after the war. Lily tracks the occasions on which simple moments of kindness from strangers enabled her to cultivate her sense of hope.

An American soldier handed Lily a bank note, inked with the words ‘a start to a new life - good luck and happiness’. The two were always close, even before Forman launched Ebert into social media stardom (her TikTok account has 1. 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.