'How can I explain the unexplainable? It is a very special honour.' Lily Ebert is one of the ​UK’s last living Auschwitz survivors and has devoted her life to educating people about the Holocaust. 🎖️ This week, Lily was awarded an MBE for her work by The King at Windsor Castle. With the help of her great-grandson Dov, Lily runs her own TikTok account which she uses to talk about the Holocaust. Born in Bonyhad, Hungary in 1923, she was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 before being sent to work in a munitions factory in Germany until being liberated. This isn’t the first time Lily has met The King. In 2022, His Majesty commissioned seven leading artists to paint seven of the last survivors of the Holocaust as a living memorial to the six million who did not survive to tell their stories. Lily was one of the seven chosen. And in 2021, The King (then The Prince of Wales) wrote the foreward to Lily’s book about her experiences in Auschwitz, saying: 🕯️ ‘Lily’s story is as profoundly moving as she is inspirational ... She and her story are a beacon of light in the darkness; a symbol of hope amongst the despair.’