September 19, 2024
Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Auschwitz survivor, Lily Ebert, has turned 100 today. 

Taking to social media, grandson of Lily Ebert, Forman, shared her birthday picture to celebrate her on her 100TH today. 
Vor wrote: “Today my great grandmother, Lily Ebert, an Auschwitz survivor, turns 100!

“I never thought I would survive Auschwitz. Now I celebrate 100 surrounded by my large and loving family. The Nazis did not win!”
All #HappyBirthdayLily wishes will be passed on.” 

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.

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