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

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I can’t even fully wrap my mind around everything Lily had to go through in life, I’m in awe about her strength, bravery and her outlook in life. Lily was born in Hungary where she lived in the small town of Bonyhád with her three sisters and two brothers and their parents. They were a very close knit, but liberal and tolerant family, and their upbringing was idyllic, despite the occasional spectre of long term historical anti-semitism in Hungary.

Lily, having gone through so much, radiates strength and wisdom and both she and Dov warmed my heart. The incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. She is a founder member of the Holocaust Survivors Centre and was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to Holocaust education.

On arrival, Lily's mother and her youngest sister and younger brother were immediately sent to the gas chamber, while Lily and her other two sisters Rene and Piri survived to go through months of work, exhaustion and starvation. Finally, one specific point Lily makes that is shockingly true, is that she thought the Holocaust was the end of genocides, and yet today and recent history (Cambodia, Rwanda, etc) genocides still occur. Review to I know it is not correct English to use the same word twice in a sentence but I hope you will forgive me in this instance because the word is so appropriate. Selbst als sie sich mit mehreren Familien eine Wohnung teilen musste und keine Privatsphäre hatte, konnte sie sich nicht vorstellen, dass es noch schlimmer wird. I received a complimentary e-ARC copy of Lily’s Promise via NetGalley from the publisher, HarperOne.

Lily tracks the occasions on which simple moments of kindness from strangers enabled her to cultivate her sense of hope. The "what happens afterwards" is just as important because it directly impacts all your offspring, and blessed be. An incredible, beautiful written page turner, I didn’t want the book to end- and not only because the story shows, photos which are interesting and was very suspense that keeps you riveted from the start to the end. Meanwhile at Yom Kippur 1944, Lily had promised that, if she survived, she would never let the world forget what she and her fellows suffered.An inspiring book written by 97-year-old holocaust survivor Lily Ebert, with contributions by her great grandson, Dov Forman. We must harness the power of education and remembrance in the hope that, ‘One Day’, everyone will know this message. Je to neskutočne odolná žena, ktorá je odhodlaná porozprávať svoj príbeh a jej pravnuk Dov je pripravený jej v tom pomôcť.