Famous holocaust survivors auschwitz

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A 100-year-old Holocaust survivor, whose story became famous as she searched for the family of a soldier who saved her, has died.

Hungarian-born Lily Ebert, who lived in north-west London, was taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 with her family when she was 20.

Her story went viral four years ago when she tried to find out more about the American soldier who liberated her from a death march in Germany.

The King is among those who paid tribute to Ms Ebert, praising her "extraordinary resilience and courage".

Ms Ebert had been determined to reach as many people to share her experiences, which led her to embrace social media.

King Charles wrote: "As a survivor of the unmentionable horrors of the Holocaust, I am so proud that she later found a home in Britain where she continued to tell the world of the horrendous atrocities she had witnessed, as a permanent reminder of the depths of depravity and evil to which humankind can fall, when reason, compassion and truth are abandoned."

She answered questions and explained the ordeal to younger generation, and with the help of her great-grandson, Dov, she gained two million followers on TikTok.

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Mindu Hornick, 13, peered through a crack in the door of her stopped cattle car and read a name: Auschwitz.

“I spelt it out for my mother,” Hornick recalled recently. “She says, ‘I don't know where it is, I've never heard of the place.’ And then suddenly all this clatter of the doors opening, and when the doors opened I mean there was, just, all hell let loose.”

They had traveled for days in the dark, 70 women and children packed shoulder to shoulder in a cattle car, with little food and a single sanitation bucket to share. Now they saw piles of rotting bodies, barking dogs, Nazis shouting in German, thick gray ash clotting the air. An official scrambled into their car.

“I think that a kapo must have known that this train of mothers and children—that were no use to them for work—would end up in the gas chambers,” said Hornick. “And that's why he must have looked in that coach and thought to himself, ‘well perhaps I'll try and save a couple.’”

He advised Hornick’s mother to let her two older girls go ahead, while she stayed behind with her younger two sons. You’ll see them soon, he assured her in Yiddish. He told Mindu and her sister to lie about their age and skills. “You are a seamstress,” he told them.

“You better do as this man says,” her mother said. “We looked back

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