Lily's Promise by Lily Ebert and Auschwitz by Laurence Rees 2 Books Collection Set

Lily's Promise by Lily Ebert and Auschwitz by Laurence Rees 2 Books Collection SetLily's Promise by Lily Ebert and Auschwitz by Laurence Rees 2 Books Collection Set Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish American soldier gave her a banknote on which hed written Good luck and happiness. Many decades later her great grandson, Dov, decided to use social media to track down the family of the GI and 96 year old Lily found

Lily's Promise by Lily Ebert and Auschwitz by Laurence Rees 2 Books Collection Set

Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert

When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on which he’d written ‘Good luck and happiness’. Many decades later her great-grandson, Dov, decided to use social media to track down the family of the GI – and 96-year-old Lily found herself making headlines round the world. Lily had promised herself that if she survived Auschwitz, she would tell everyone the truth about the camp. Now was her chance.

In Lily’s Promise she writes movingly about her happy childhood in Hungary, the death of her mother and two youngest siblings on their arrival at Auschwitz in 1944 and her determination to keep her two other sisters safe. She describes the inhumanity of the camp and the small acts of defiance that gave her strength. From there she and her sisters became slave labour in a munitions factory, and then faced a death march that they barely survived.

Auschwitz: The Nazis and The 'Final Solution' by Laurence Rees

In this classic book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into the site of the largest mass murder in history - part death camp, part concentration camp, where around a million Jews were killed.

Auschwitz examines the mentality and motivations of the key Nazi decision makers, and perpetrators of appalling crimes speak here for the first time about their actions. Drawing on Rees's landmark documentary and material from the Russian archives, which challenged many previously accepted arguments, this book reveals significant and disturbing facts - from the operation of a brothel to the corruption that was rife throughout the camp.