Lily Ebert, who has died aged 100, was one of the last survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Seeing smoke rising later from the crematorium chimney and thinking it was a factory, Lily was told by another inmate: “They are burning your families there. When she was 96, she published a bestselling memoir, co-written with her great-grandson Dov Forman, called Lily’s Promise: How I survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live. There they worked in a munitions factory, Lily managing to pass defective bullets with usable ones in her job as a supervisor. In 1948 Lily married a Hungarian businessman, Shmuel Ebert, and the couple had three children, Esti, Bilha and Roni.

Source: The Guardian October 14, 2024 23:54 UTC