“They couldn’t kill us because their time ran out, not the gas.”
With her great-grandson, Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert shares her memories from Auschwitz on TikTok, so we never forget ...
With her great-grandson, Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert shares her memories from Auschwitz on TikTok, so we never forget ...
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00:00Only one thing was good, that I did not know where the journey takes.
00:06We arrived in a place, you could call it the hell.
00:21I hope, for the whole world's sake, that the world learns something from it.
00:28And therefore I try, how much I can, to talk about it.
00:33That something like that should not happen again.
00:37They put a number of us, like what they do, an enemy.
00:43We were not women, and we were not taken.
00:52Oh, that is, yeah, that is, yeah, thank you that you mentioned it.
00:58I remember the people who were already there.
01:11They told me that, you know, your family is not on other parts where they will work.
01:20They are murdered.
01:22And you know what I answered?
01:25You are mad.
01:27We don't believe that.
01:29And very quick, we find out from people who were there a bit longer time,
01:39that that was the truth.
01:42That is what they want to achieve.
01:45Kill us.
01:47Why they could not?
01:49Because the time run out.
01:51Nothing else.
02:25Yes, we were in the ghetto.
02:36Because in the ghetto, they should know where the Jewish people are.
02:43So it was easier for them to take us to the camp.
02:56The truth is that the whole Europe, the Jewish people, nearly the whole Europe,
03:06the Jewish people were not alive anymore.
03:09Not alive.
03:11And we in Hungary still did not know.
03:16And they know also how to work in secret.
03:21So even in Hungary, for one town, the other town did not know what happens.
03:52They took us from Hungary.
03:56They have not enough workers.
03:58They need workers.
04:00They took us for slave labor.
04:03We thought a few months, a few weeks, a few months, we will be,
04:10and then we will be free.
04:12It is not the end of the world.
04:14Then this fire came up.
04:16And this terrible smell.
04:18Yeah, you burn human flesh and hair.
04:35We told you about how they killed us.
04:37That what they haven't spoken about, that people died from hunger.
04:43And even worse, that people was experimented on without any anesthetic.
04:51Would you believe that when you operate an animal,
04:56would you operate an animal without anesthetic or anything?
04:59They are not humans, not me.
05:02I don't let the humanism.
05:09Something like that.
05:11But I think never ever happened in human history.
05:16I don't say people were always nice to each other.
05:20But so killing, industrial killing, that is,
05:25would they build factory to kill and not to produce something?
05:32That never was up to.
05:35And that happened the first time.
05:38The first time.
05:49Nobody who survived, don't know how, it was luck.
05:56God wanted that I should survive.
05:59So I survived.
06:01If somebody tries to answer you, they don't know what they are saying.
06:06But Zata, you often say what helped you to stay alive,
06:10not survive, but to stay alive in the camps,
06:12was that you had your sisters with you.
06:14Yeah, that is again true.
06:16I had my two younger sisters with me.
06:20I know I was the oldest.
06:24I am responsible for that.
06:27I promised myself.
06:30If I survive, I think so.
06:35I will tell the world what happened.
07:00It was the Eichmann trial.
07:03That opened the way there.
07:05That was the first time that I heard about it happened something.
07:11And then I didn't want that to open this whole terrible thing.
07:21And then I saw people know already about it.
07:24So it is much better when I know for somebody
07:29who can tell who was there, who went through it, what it was.
07:51If you look at our TikTok account,
07:53there are 10-year-olds who haven't learnt in school,
07:55asking questions, and they do want to learn.
07:57And they do want to hear from a survivor,
07:59because they know that in a few years' time,
08:01they'll be able to say to someone,
08:02I got my question answered by a survivor.
08:04And I know it's true, because she has the tattoo from Auschwitz on her arm.
08:08And it never begins with killing.
08:10Therefore, we must be so careful of voices, of speaking.