Trolls abuse Holocaust survivor, 99

AN Auschwitz survivor is ‘worried and frightened’ after receiving a barrage of anti-Semitic abuse online in the wake of the October 7 terror attack in Israel.

Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert, 99, receives around 1,000 antiSemitic messages every day, since Hamas terrorists massacred 1,400 people in Israel and kidnapped 200.

Some of the comments she has received include ‘dirty Zionist’, ‘go die’, ‘you guys... prove why Hitler did what he did’ and ‘holohoax’.

She has also been told to ‘get bombed’ and been sent devil and middle finger emojis on her widely followed social media accounts. London-based Lily and her greatgrandson Dov Forman, 19, run a TikTok account with 2.1million followers, which educates people about the Holocaust.

Dov has been forced to disable the comment sections because the abuse has become too unbearable for his great-grandmother.

Speaking to the MoS, he said: ‘I am trying to protect her from seeing the full extent of the comments. She is horrified that Jews, including myself, feel we have to hide our identities – like she had to in the 1930s and 1940s.’

Aged 20, Lily was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau from Hungary. Her mother, brother and one of her sisters were executed on arrival in the Nazis’ gas chambers. Lily and her two other sisters survived after spending four months in Auschwitz.

Responding to the anti-Semitic abuse she has received online,

Lily said: ‘It is incredibly worrying and frightening to see, yet again, individuals are calling for violence against innocent Jewish people.’