Lily Ebert, Holocaust Survivor, Author and TikTok Star, Dies at 100

In July 1944, when Lily Ebert was 20 years old, she and most of her family were packed onto a train and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where on arrival she watched as her mother and two of her siblings were led to a gas chamber.She would never see them again.That Yom Kippur, as she, her two sisters and others were squeezed together, praying in the barracks, Ms.

Ebert promised herself that her mother and younger siblings would not have died for nothing.If she survived, she would tell the world what had happened to them, and to those who had no one to tell their stories.Ms.

Ebert did survive, and she spent the rest of her life fulfilling that vow.She spoke publicly about her experiences, wrote a memoir, “Lily’s Promise,” which became a New York Times best seller, and educated millions of young followers about the horrors of the Holocaust on TikTok, through an account she shared with her great-grandson Dov Forman.On Oct.

9, Mr.Forman posted on social media that Ms.

Ebert had died at her home.She was 100.Lívia Engelman was born on Dec.

29, 1923, in Bonyhád, Hungary, to Ahron, who sold textiles, and Nina (Bresnitz) Engelman.In her memoir, Ms.

Ebert described a fairly idyllic childhood, with tender parents and a town that was a “friendly, bustling kind of place.” One of six siblings, she grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family that considered itself proudly Hungarian.Her father died when she was 18.In 1944, the Nazis invaded Hungary and occupied towns throughout the country, including Bonyhád.

Soldiers imposed a curfew on residents and confiscated anything of value.Then on May 15, with only an hour’s notice, Hungarian police officers, guns drawn, forced the town’s Jewish residents into a ghetto.“We thought we were going for a few days, a few weeks at most,” Ms.

Ebert wrote in her memoir.“We had no idea we’d never come back.”We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Th...