97-year-old Holocaust survivor recovers from COVID-19; urges 'never give up on life'

At the age of 97, a Holocaust survivor from Auschwitz concentration camp, Lily Ebert, took her first steps out on a walk on January 26 after recovering from the COVID-19 health crisis. Photo of Ebert's first post-Covid walk was shared by her 17-year-old grandson Dov Forman on his Twitter handle with a caption: 'My 97-Year-old Great Grandma, BEM - Auschwitz Survivor, has just recovered from Covid- 19.' Forman added that her recovery was “miraculous”, adding the elderly woman is a fighter and survivor after she sprang for her first walk outside since the disease left her body. 

According to sources of NBC, both Forman and his father were infected with the coronavirus last April, eventually, Ebert contracted the respiratory disease. Initially, the woman showed no signs of declining health. Ebert then got vaccinated with the first shot of the Pfizer vaccine on Dec. 17. She was struck with fatigue and later tested positive for COVID-19 in January. Isolated at home, the elderly woman took three weeks to recover from the symptomatic infection. She was given homecare treatment by doctors to ensure that she was administering her medications well on time. The 97-year-old, however, hit a critical stage. Forman told the agency that the family was exceedingly worried the whole time Ebert was quarantined, particularly fearing about her being hospitalized. 

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Internet celebrates the 'strong-willed' woman

‘She’s a fighter,’ the grandson told NBC, adding that his grandmother never gave up, and demonstrated her valiant spirit, also because she has been a survivor of Auschwitz and many other things in her life. Ebert, according to the guardian’s report was also given supplementary oxygen in her home in north London. Furthermore, she told the reporters that she was strong-willed to fight the disease, saying, as long as there is hope, there is life. Ebert was rescued in April 1945 from the Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp, previously having survived death marches at Auschwitz camp where her family was brutally murdered. Internet lauded the woman’s strength, determination, and willpower as they virtually clapped and paid respect to the “fighter and survivor”. 

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