Yesterday my great Grandma, Lily Ebert- Auschwitz survivor, showed me a letter she wrote to herself following her first trip back to Auschwitz in 1988.

‘We must help those who weren’t there to understand’

After 32 years, the need for education is equally as important.

Thread: She began by reading the last of the 12 pages.

‘Not everything that is beaten and downtrodden is destroyed. From fire and beating iron becomes steel - it is stronger and reinforced - so we survivors have emerged to make new lives for ourselves despite being in the hell.’

Here is a small gold pendant, which remarkably survived Auschwitz-Birkenau with my great Grandma, Lily Ebert.

It looks quite ordinary, similar to any other necklace, but it has its own remarkable story.

Thread: When my great Grandma was a young girl, in Bonyhad Hungary, her mother gave her this small gold pendant as a present.

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they were made to hand in all their gold and jewellery.