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

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Lily Ebert lives in London near her large and loving family, which includes thirty-four great-grandchildren. 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.

Lily and her sisters and some others whom they befriended essentially survived by having a mutual support network and being determined to stay together to maintain a small oasis of sanity amid the madness and horror.

Lily’s Promise – named just that because Lily herself made a promise to herself in the depths of Auschwitz – should she survive she would live her life and dedicate her life ensuring the world knew exactly what happened during the holocaust. Utterly compelling, heartbreaking, truthful and yet redemptive, a memoir of the Holocaust, a testimony of irrepressible spirit and an unforgettable family chronicle, written in lucid prose by a truly remarkable woman about her life from Hungary to Auschwitz, Israel to London. Lily is a treasure, and I just updated my review because I read that she is currently in the hospital. 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. The incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world.

Her great grandson Dov has helped by publicising her experiences on social media and using Twitter, for example, to identify a particular US soldier who wrote her a message of hope for the future in 1945. Despite the trauma and horrors of the experiences that Lily relays, there is always an underlying message of hope.As more time passes and more survivors die, the horrors of Auschwitz seem to fade into the problems of today's history.

Your Grandson is a wonderful person who deserves the highest praise for encouraging and supporting you to tell your story and then find so many answers for you. Dov, equally committed to sharing Lily’s story, is leading the way as a role-model for young people across the world for Holocaust education and remembrance. The "what happens afterwards" is just as important because it directly impacts all your offspring, and blessed be. Lily kept her mother's jewels hidden in her shoe and, later, in successive pieces of daily bread throughout her experiences. E isso é o que acontece com a Lily, ela conta a sua história de modo a não angustiar demasiado o seu ouvinte.We must harness the power of education and remembrance in the hope that, ‘One Day’, everyone will know this message.

I think it's just as important for those not directly impacted by it to share that information with their children.I’ve always been interested in the Holocaust, I’ve always watched movies, documentaries, and read whatever I could find online about it. Neďaleko sa týčil vysoký komín, z ktorého sa zúrivo dymilo a občas z neho vyleteli jasné červené plamene.