How could anyone hate Lily Ebert? The 99-year-old from Golders Green dedicates her life to teaching younger generations about the Shoah. Lily survived Auschwitz, where her mother and two of her siblings were gassed, and she went on to found the Holocaust Survivors’ Centre. For her contributions to Holocaust education, she was awarded the British Empire Medal.
One of the tools she uses to reach young people is TikTok. Her account, managed by her 19-year-old great-grandson Dov Forman, has 2.1 million followers, drawn to educational videos from a woman who has lived some of the very worst of history. Then, one month ago, when Hamas murdered 1,400 Israelis in one day, things changed. Dov tells the Hampstead and Highgate Express: ‘Within days we started to receive thousands more antisemitic comments and messages than we usually do. It used to be a few hundred a day and now it’s a few thousand.’
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