King pays tribute to Lily Ebert’s ‘resilience and courage’ and praises her work as writer and educator
Ebert was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, where her mother and two younger siblings were sent immediately to the gas chambers. Ebert and two other sisters survived the Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland.
The king said Ebert’s stories were a “permanent reminder for our generation – and, indeed, for future generations – of the depths of depravity and evil to which humankind can fall, when reason, compassion and truth are abandoned. “Safta was the queen of our large, loving family. With a surviving daughter and son – remembering a daughter who pre-deceased her – 10 grandchildren, 38 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild, her legacy lives on in each of us.
Ebert was freed from Auschwitz at the age of 20, lived in Switzerland and Israel, and moved to the UK in 1967 with her husband. In January 2023, she was recognised with an MBE for her services to Holocaust education.
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