My grandma was handed a note after being liberated from Auschwitz — decades later, we were able to thank the kind stranger for giving her hope
NY Post
“The start to a new life.”
Just six words made an impact on Lily Ebert in 1945, a year after she and her family were forced out of Hungary and sent to the notorious death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, where her mother, younger sister, brother and over 100 members of her extended family were killed in the gas chambers.
Ebert and two of her sisters were chosen to work for the Nazis until they were “no longer useful,” her great-grandson Dov Forman, 21, recently told The Post.
In April 1945, Ebert and her sisters were on a “death march” when American-Jewish forces liberated them.
One of these soldiers gave Ebert a banknote with a hopeful message: “The start to a new life. Good luck and happiness.”
Now, her story and memories are among the many honored in Nikki Schreiber’s new book “Humans of Judaism,” a collection of over 200 moving stories of Jewish identity and perseverance, including those of Holocaust survivors, artists, inventors, founders, celebrities and personal family histories.
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