Lily Ebert
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Lily Ebert BEM (born 29 December 1923) is a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor, living in Brent Cross, London.
Personal life
Ebert was born in Bonyhád, Kingdom of Hungary (now Hungary). She was the eldest daughter in a family of six children.[1]
The Holocaust
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 sisters Renee and Piri were selected for work in the camp.[1]
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 in 1945.[1]
Post-Holocaust
After she was liberated, Ebert travelled with her surviving sisters to Switzerland in order to start rebuilding their life. In 1953 Ebert was reunited with her older brother, who had survived the Nazi camp system, and the family then moved to Israel where she married and had three children, before settling in London in 1967.[2]
In 2021, Ebert became a star on the TikTok video sharing platform, gaining more than a million followers for clips in which she answers people’s questions about surviving the Holocaust, when she was a prisoner at Auschwitz concentration camp.[3]
Also 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 Prince Charles.[4]
Award
In the 2016 New Year Honours, she was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) for services to Holocaust education and awareness.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d "Lily Ebert BEM". het.org.uk. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
- ^ "'Auschwitz was hell on earth. We must never forget its horrors'". standard.co.uk. 2020. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
- ^ "Nonagenarian TikTok star shares Ausschwitz experiences". dw.com. 2021. Retrieved 14 August 2021.[dead link]
- ^ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/27/must-keep-memories-holocaust-alive/
- ^ "Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood". thegazette.co.uk. 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
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