She survived Auschwitz, wrote a best-selling memoir, “Lily’s Promise,” and spoke to a following of 2 million fans on TikTok.
She was born Lívia Engelman into an Orthodox Jewish family in Bonyhád, Hungary, on December 29 1923, one of six children of Ahron, who sold textiles, and Nina, née Bresnitz. It was an idyllic childhood, she said, though her father died when she was 18.