The American soldier and the Holocaust survivor

The moving story of Lily Ebert

‘HE WROTE 10

WORDS ON A BANKNOTE. I KNEW I WOULD KEEP IT FOR EVER’

When Dov Forman found a signed German banknote in his great-grandmother Lily’s family photo album, he set about tracking down the soldier who had given it to her after she was liberated from a concentration camp in 1945. Here, in an extract from their new book, Lily’s Promise, Dov and Lily tell two sides of a deeply moving story