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One of the last remaining survivors of Auschwitz, 98-year-old Lily Ebert, who now lives in London, has gained more than 1.6 million followers on TikTok – where she answers people’s questions about surviving the Holocaust – with the help of her 18-year-old great grandson Dov Forman.
‘I was in Auschwitz for four months’
Lily was born in the Hungarian town of Bonyhad in 1923. In March 1944, the Nazis invaded Hungary. A few months later, when Lily was 20, she and her family were taken to the death camp where more than a million people were murdered by the Nazis, including her mother and two siblings, as she explains in one of her short videos:
We arrived in Auschwitz with my mother, my three sisters and my younger brother. There, we had to stand in groups of five and go before a man. With one movement, he sent people to the right, or to the left. Me and my two sisters were sent to the right. My mother with my younger brother and younger sister were sent to the left. People who were sent to the left were taken straight to the crematorium.
“I was in Auschwitz for four months. Four months in a death camp. People would say, ‘Four months is not so long.’ But I will tell you something…even four months was too long,” she said in another video.
Her great-grandson’s idea
Lily Ebert has told her story countless times, both in the British Parliament and in schools across London, where she now lives with her family. However, the 98-year-old was no longer able to share her testimony in person during the 2020 pandemic lockdowns. That’s when her great grandson Dov Forman came up with the idea of sharing her story on TikTok.
“It is very important that the world knows what happened to us, because there are not many of us left,” she said in one…
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Source : france24
