TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ebert, Lily,
AU  - Forman,Dov
TI  - Lily's promise: how I survived Auschwitz and found the strength to live 
SN  - 9781529073447
U1  - 940.531 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London : 
PB  - Pan Books, 
KW  - Ebert, Lily.
KW  - Ebert, Lily
KW  - Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Poland
KW  - Biography
KW  - Holocaust survivors
KW  - Jews
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Immigrant families
KW  - Israel
KW  - England
KW  - Women Nazi concentration camp inmates
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - fast
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N2  - When 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
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