'She's a fighter,' Dov Forman said of his great-grandmother, Lily Ebert.
Forman reacted to the recent act of antisemitism during an appearance on"The View" on Jan. 15 when aclaiming to have planted bombs and taking a Rabbi and three others hostage.
While writing the book amidst the pandemic, Ebert unfortunately contracted COVID-19."We unfortunately as a family thought that she would die and we thought we would never see her again," Forman told"The View" co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin. "From a very young age," Forman said he would ask"as many questions as possible" about her life before, during and after the Holocaust."That's maybe why it was easier for her to share her stories with me."
Ebert and her sisters moved to a displaced persons camp in Buchenwald under U.S. control, eerily sleeping in houses formerly occupied by SS guards. After learning that a Swiss government initiative called to house hundreds of Jewish children, Lily resourcefully changed the age on her identity card so she would meet the minimum age criteria.
In 1988, Ebert joined a group visiting Auschwitz and agreed to speak about her experience. It proved to be the key to the start of her sharing the trauma she suffered and witnessed. She told"The View" that the visit was the proudest moment of her life.
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