A Holocaust survivor is to be reunited with the family of a kind American soldier who wrote her a message on a banknote, after he was tracked down on social media.
Lily Ebert was 16 when she was given the note while being marched from a munitions factory shortly before she was freed in 1945.
She had been sent there as a slave labourer from Auschwitz. They had been travelling for days with no shoes, food or water when she was approached by the kind Jewish GI, who spoke to her in German before giving her a ten-mark bank note.
On it he wrote: “A start to a new life. Good luck and happiness." He also wrote something in Hebrew along with his army role as "assistant to Chaplain Schachter".
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