Holocaust survivor for the 35th time, great-grandmother: “Babies are revenge on Nazis”

Lily Ebert from London
Holocaust survivor becomes great-grandmother for the 35th time: “Babies are the best revenge on the Nazis”

Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert with her great-grandson Dov Forman in 2003

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Lily Ebert survived the Holocaust. Now she has become a great-grandmother for the 35th time. “The Nazis wanted to kill us and we showed that they couldn’t do it,” says the 98-year-old.

In 1944 Lily Ebert was deported to Auschwitz. At the age of 98, she has now become a great-grandmother for the 35th time. It’s something special for every great-grandmother, London-based Ebert told the PA news agency. But for her as a Holocaust survivor, it is all the more special. “I never thought I could do it. First of all, I had to survive, then reach this age. The Nazis wanted to kill us and we showed that they couldn’t do it.”

Ebert was born in Hungary in 1923 and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. Her mother, younger brother and sister were murdered there. After four months, Ebert and two other sisters were sent to forced labor in a munitions factory near Leipzig, where they were liberated by US troops. Via Switzerland and Israel, she came to England in 1967 with her three children.

Dedicated her whole life to raising awareness of the Holocaust

“Babies are the best revenge against the Nazis,” 18-year-old Dov Forman quoted his great-grandmother as saying in a tweet that has been liked by more than 145,000 users. Forman runs a Tiktok account for Ebert with over 1.6 million followers and has co-published a book with her, to which Prince Charles contributed the foreword.

“She has devoted her entire life to educating people about the Holocaust,” Forman said. His great-grandmother visited schools, companies and organizations together with other survivors. “I promised myself: As long as I live, I will tell my story to future generations,” said Ebert.

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