Lilly Ebert
Auschwitz Survivor

Lilly Ebert constantly wears a pendant that she hid from the Germans. The pendant, just smaller than a five pence piece has an angel on it and was given to her by her mother when she four years old. "My brother built it into the heel of my shoe, the dents are from the nails. In Auschwitz they took everything from us but not our shoes." Lilly recalls the selection to live or die at Auschwitz as quick.

Lilly and two of her sisters were pushed to the right, her mother, brother and youngest sister to the left. Those on the right were sent to the showers, those on the left, to the crematoriums. Lilly then 14, emerged from the showers, her head and pubic hair shaved, rags for clothes, when she saw the flames leaping from one of the chimneys. The air was acrid with the stench of burned flesh. It was the people who had been pushed to the left.

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