Lily's Promise: Holding On to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond—A Story for All Generations

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this life-affirming intergenerational memoir Lily Ebert a Holocaust survivor and her great-grandson Dov Forman come together to share her story—an unforgettable tale of resilience and resistance. On Yom Kippur 1944 fighting to stay alive as a prisoner in Auschwitz Lily Ebert made a promise to herself. She would survive the hell she was in and tell the world her story for everyone who couldn’t. Now at ninety-eight this remarkable woman—and TikTok sensation thanks to the help of her eighteen-year-old great-grandson—fulfills that vow relaying the details of her harrowing experiences with candor charm and an overflowing heart. In these pages she writes movingly about her happy childhood in Hungary the death of her mother and two youngest siblings on their arrival at Auschwitz and her determination to keep her two other sisters safe. She describes the inhumanity of the camp and the