King Charles is remembering Lily Ebert, an Auschwitz survivor who used social media to educate new generations about the Holocaust, following her death at 100 years old.
The Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor and educator died on Wednesday, Oct. 9 in her London home, her great-grandson Dov Forman confirmed to The New York Times.
After learning of her death, the King, 75, who presented Ebert with a Member of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire last year, released a statement praising her “extraordinary resilience.”
“It was with the greatest sadness that I heard this morning the news of Lily Ebert’s death,” King Charles wrote. “As a survivor of the unmentionable horrors of the Holocaust, I am so proud that she later found a home in Britain where she continued to tell the world of the horrendous atrocities she had witnessed, as a permanent reminder for our generation — and, indeed, for future generations — of the depths of depravity and evil to which humankind can …