Trolls send 99-year-old Holocaust survivor 1,000 anti-Semitic messages every day after Hamas terror attack
- Lily Ebert, 99, says she receives about 1,000 anti-Semitic messages a day
- The wave of hatred came after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7
- She has been told to ‘die’ and be ‘bombarded’ by thousands of trolls
An Auschwitz survivor is ‘worried and scared’ 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 about 1,000 anti-Semitic 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… proof of why Hitler did what he did,” and “holohoax.”
She has also been told to ‘get bombed’ and had devil and middle finger emojis sent on her widely followed social media accounts. London-based Lily and her great-grandson Dov Forman, 19, have a TikTok account with 2.1 million followers, which helps people learn about the Holocaust.
Dov has been forced to disable the comment sections because the abuse has become too unbearable for his great-grandmother.
Lily Ebert, 99, survived the Auschwitz concentration camp (pictured) and has been trying to live in peace ever since
An aerial view shows the burned cars of festival goers at the site of an attack on the Nova Festival by Hamas gunmen from Gaza, near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, October 12, 2023
Speaking to the MoS, he said: ‘I am trying to protect her from seeing the full extent of the comments. She is shocked that Jews, including myself, feel like we have to hide our identities – as she did in the 1930s and 1940s.”
At the age of 20, Lily was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Her mother, brother and one of her sisters were executed in the Nazi gas chambers upon arrival. Lily and her two other sisters survived after spending four months in Auschwitz.
Commenting on the anti-Semitic abuse she has suffered online, Lily said: ‘It is incredibly worrying and frightening to see individuals once again calling for violence against innocent Jewish people.’