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

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Despite the trauma and horrors of the experiences that Lily relays, there is always an underlying message of hope. E isso é o que acontece com a Lily, ela conta a sua história de modo a não angustiar demasiado o seu ouvinte. Isso é tão triste, o mundo recusar-se a escutar o que os sobreviventes tinham para contar, porque era demasiado difícil, porque sentiam culpa, porque era mais simples fingir que não aconteceu.

But also, she reflected on how when humans go through unimaginable atrocities such as the Holocaust, they tend to push those memories out of mind as a coping mechanism. As more time passes and more survivors die, the horrors of Auschwitz seem to fade into the problems of today's history. I appreciate that, because other survivor testimonies I’ve read stop shortly after liberation, but of course the trauma continues. Lily lost so much, but she built a new life for herself and her family, first in Israel and then in London. The accuracy of dates and facts in her book about her time in the Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau contributes to the chorus of voices thanks to which we can get closer to the human experience in a world of utter dehumanisation.

For decades Lily could not talk about her experiences in the Holocaust, her fellow citizens in Israel being divided essentially into two categories, fellow survivors with whom it was felt there was no need to talk about it, and those, like Shmuel, who had not been through those experiences and who could never understood what the survivors had been through. At the age of sixteen he was separated from her during the Covid pandemic for the first time, and became determined to record her story for posterity.

I needed to read this book, but I did expect it to be a little less refined in writing due to the TikTok aspect. I had a Jewish friend tell me that she has a hard time talking about the Holocaust with her children.Keď sa potom jej pravnuk Dov Forman rozhodol využiť sociálne médiá, aby vystopoval rodinu tohto vojaka, deväťdesiatšesťročná Lily sa odrazu ocitla na titulkách po celom svete. Lily is a 97 year old Holocaust survivor who has worked with her teenage great grandson (who has helped her reach people through Twitter, Tiktok, and Twitch) to tell of her time in the concentration camps. Je to neskutočne odolná žena, ktorá je odhodlaná porozprávať svoj príbeh a jej pravnuk Dov je pripravený jej v tom pomôcť.

I feel like I’ve learned A LOT while reading it and I plan to continue learning and telling people about it. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. 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. So many people died because they were different than those who thought of themselves as the master race. This is different to many of the books I have read, split between life during the war and lily's struggles within Auschwitz through to her time afterwards and up to the current day.Prince Charles of Wales read a hard to understand introduction (more than likely read from a portable sound system) but I bow to him for letting the world know of his involvement in the holocaust project in his country albeit what is that 65 years later? It’s emotional, it’s narrated in a way it makes the reader feel like we’re next to Lily having a conversation and listening to her experiences.

This is an intensely moving and inspirational memoir by a Holocaust survivor, the now 98 year old Lily Ebert (nee Engelmann), survivor of Auschwitz, of one of the Buchenwald satellite camps and of a forced death march across Germany before being rescued by US soldiers in April 1945. For those who already read other biography like hers (because yes, it's a biography and NOT a fiction) you still gonna learn new thing that you never read or heard before. 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. This book was a very detailed and heartbreaking read of exactly what the Jewish community had to endure during those years in the war.Myslím na to, o koľko lepšie poznám svoju prababičku než pred rokom, keď sme so štyrmi generáciami rodiny šťastne oslavovali jej narodeniny v Bournemouthe. Lily Ebert is a remarkable woman and Dov, her great-grandson is a credit to her and an incredible young man. Despite the horrors she experienced (she witnessed Mengele steer her mother and young siblings to the “other side”), her message is a positive one: “If you could help someone else when they were at their lowest…this kept you alive too. After some four months in Auschwitz, the group were moved to a munitions factory attached to Buchenwald where the treatment was a little better as the Holocaust had destroyed so many lives of slave workers that even the Nazis realised they had to keep their workers alive to keep their flagging war machine going.