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100 _aEbert, Lily,
_eauthor.
_951832
245 1 0 _aLily's promise :
_bhow I survived Auschwitz and found the strength to live /
_cLily Ebert and Dov Forman.
260 _aLondon :
_bPan Books,
_c2022.
300 _a303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations, portraits ;
_c20 cm.
520 _aWhen Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on which he'd written 'Good luck and happiness'. And when her great-grandson, Dov, decided to use social media to track down the family of the GI, 96-year-old Lily found herself making headlines round the world. Lily had promised herself that if she survived Auschwitz she would tell everyone the truth about the camp. Now was her chance. In Lily's Promise she writes movingly about her happy childhood in Hungary, the death of her mother and two youngest siblings on their arrival at Auschwitz in 1944 and her determination to keep her two other sisters safe. She describes the inhumanity of the camp and the small acts of defiance that gave her strength. From there she and her sisters became slave labour in a munitions factory, and then faced a death march that they barely survived. Lily lost so much, but she built a new life for herself and her family, first in Israel and then in London. It wasn't easy; the pain of her past was always with her, but this extraordinary woman
600 0 _aEbert, Lily.
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600 0 _aEbert, Lily.
_xChildhood and youth.
_951834
600 0 _aEbert, Lily
_xFamily.
_951835
610 0 _aAuschwitz (Concentration camp)
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650 0 _aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
_zPoland
_vBiography.
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650 0 _aHolocaust survivors
_vBiography.
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650 0 _aJews
_zPoland
_vBiography.
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650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xJews
_vBiography.
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650 0 _aImmigrant families
_zIsrael
_vBiography.
_951839
650 0 _aImmigrant families
_zEngland
_vBiography.
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650 0 _aWomen Nazi concentration camp inmates
_vBiography.
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655 7 _aAutobiographies.
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700 1 _aForman, Dov,
_eauthor.
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