Lily's Promise by Lily Ebert and Auschwitz by Laurence Rees 2 Books Collection Set

Lily's Promise by Lily Ebert and Auschwitz: The Nazis and The 'Final Solution' by Laurence Rees are presented together in a two-book collection. This set brings together a personal memoir and a historical account focused on Auschwitz.

Included titles

• Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live
• Auschwitz: The Nazis and The 'Final Solution'

Key details

• Two-book collection set
• Includes a memoir by Lily Ebert
• Includes a history of Auschwitz by Laurence Rees
• Both books focus on experiences and events connected to Auschwitz

Synopses

Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live

Lily Ebert recounts being liberated in 1945, when a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote bearing the message ‘Good luck and happiness’. Decades later, her great-grandson Dov used social media to trace the soldier’s family, bringing Lily’s story to worldwide attention.

She writes about her childhood in Hungary, the loss of her mother and two youngest siblings on arrival at Auschwitz in 1944, and her efforts to keep her sisters safe. The account also covers the inhumanity of the camp, later forced labour in a munitions factory, and a death march that she and her sisters barely survived.

Auschwitz: The Nazis and The 'Final Solution'

Laurence Rees presents a history of Auschwitz, charting its development from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into a combined death camp and concentration camp. The book describes it as the site of the largest mass murder in history, where around a million Jews were killed.

It examines the mentality and motivations of key Nazi decision makers, and includes testimony from perpetrators speaking about their actions. Drawing on Rees’s documentary work and material from the Russian archives, it sets out facts including the operation of a brothel and corruption within the camp.