Holocaust survivor who found fame on TikTok dies at 100

Lily Ebert with her great-grandson Dov Forman at Windsor Castle last year after an investiture ceremony at which King Charles presented her with the insignia of a member of the Order of the British Empire. (Image: Getty)

The Wall Street Journal

Sun, 10 Nov 2024

By James R. Hagerty As a prisoner in Nazi death camps during World War II, Lily Engelman vowed that – if she survived – she would one day bear witness to the systematic slaughter of Jews.After the war, she emigrated from Hungary to Israel, where she found sewing work in a mattress factory. She married another Hungarian-speaking Jew, Shmuel Ebert, who had fled Europe before the war. Despite her vow, however, she found herself rarely even mentioning the Holocaust. People noticed the number tattooed on her left fore...

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