A 97-year-old Holocaust survivor has been inundated with antisemitic abuse on social media since Israel began its bombardment of Gaza, her family has said.
Lily Ebert was still a teenager when she was deported from her home in Hungary to Auschwitz. She was liberated two years later while on a death march to a munitions factory, having been forced to walk for days without shoes, food or water.
Now living in north London, she speaks to young people about the “importance of tolerance and love”. Her teenage great-grandson, Dov Forman, said her pages on social media had been swamped with “messages of hate”, including posts praising Hitler and celebrating the murder of six million Jews.
Forman posted: “Over the past few days my great-grandmother, [an]
