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Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert & Dov Forman - Non Fiction - Paperback
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The incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. This updated edition includes Lily being awarded an MBE, reaching her hundredth birthday, and the discovery of a long-lost book belonging to her murdered brother – the only tangible link to him that survived the Holocaust.
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’. Many decades later her great-grandson, Dov, decided to use social media to track down the family of the GI – and 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 found the strength to speak out in the hope that such evil would never happen again.
| Feature | Specification |
| Authors | Lily Ebert BEM MBE and Dov Forman |
| Foreword | His Majesty King Charles III (Written as Prince of Wales) |
| Publisher / Imprint | Pan Books (An Imprint of Pan Macmillan) |
| ISBN-13 | 9781529073447 |
| Format | Standalone Non-Fiction Biography / Memoir Paperback |
| Page Count | 320 Pages of Definitive, Lucid First-Hand Historical Testimony |
| Key Milestones Covered | Childhood in Hungary, 1944 arrival at Auschwitz, slave labour in a munitions factory, the death march, 1945 liberation, global social media connection |
| Target Audience | Adult Readers, Secondary History Students, Book Clubs, and Life-Story Learners |
| Core Themes | Unshakeable resilience, intergenerational memory, historical accuracy, global educational activism |
| 2026 Context | Vital narrative pillar optimized for mid-year reading clubs and academic reflection cycles launching next month |
Lily Ebert BEM MBE was an exceptionally distinguished Hungarian-born British Holocaust survivor and educator who dedicated her life to public memory, serving as a founding member of the Holocaust Survivors Centre in London. Her exceptional educational work was recognized at the highest level of British society, earning her the British Empire Medal and an MBE for services to Holocaust education. Her co-author and great-grandson, Dov Forman, is an internationally acclaimed youth history advocate and spokesperson whose collaborative digital campaigns have transformed modern archival preservation methods. Published by Pan Books: the elite, award-winning paperback imprint of Pan Macmillan celebrated globally for its high-integrity historical vetting, peerless editorial standards, and premium typography: this official UK printing features a distinguished foreword by His Majesty King Charles III. In 2026, this volume stands as a primary recommended text across British educational councils, human rights organizations, and community libraries for its unparalleled accuracy in first-hand historical reporting.
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