Lily Ebert found a home after the horrors of the war on the street in north London where a terrifying attack on Jews was carried out this week.

09:13, Fri, May 1, 2026 Updated: 09:15, Fri, May 1, 2026

Lily Ebert

Lily Ebert was honoured by King Charles after she passed away in 2024 (Image: Getty)

A Holocaust survivor who lived on the street where Wednesday's stabbing took place would be "completely devastated" if she was alive, her great-grandson said. Lily Ebert died aged 100 in 2024. In 1944, at just 20, she faced the terror of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where she was taken with her family.

Her mother Nina, younger brother Bela and younger sister Berta were murdered in the camp's gas chambers.

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A memorial now stands on Golders Green Road, where she lived, to Hungarianborn Lily, who brought the horrors of the Nazi genocide to a new generation with her memoirs and social media videos.

Dov Forman, great-grandson who helped her write the books and produce videos watched by tens of millions, said this week's attacks were near her home.

Dov Forman

Lily and Dov Forman at Windsor when she received her MBE (Image: Getty)

He added: "Lily lived in Golders Green Road, on the road of the first stabbing, and just a street from the other.

"In her final months, before she passed away in 2024, she was horrified that the country she trusted, and moved to after surviving the Holocaust, was beginning to fail in its most basic duty.

"It is a disgrace she lived to see echoes of what she survived return.

"She would have been completely devastated to see the attack on Wednesday, and to realise that Jewish blood is once again becoming cheap."

Paying tribute to Lily when she passed away in 2024, King Charles wrote he was “so proud that she later found a home in Britain where she continued to tell the world of the horrendous atrocities she had witnessed.”

A Jewish man

A Jewish man walks down the street in the Golders Green area of London (Image: Getty)

Mr Forman said the Jewish community is now surrounded by police and security but "no one was shocked" at the crime.

He added: "Despite the extra £25million announced for security, everyone is expecting that acts like this will unfortunately be repeated.

"Every Jew walking through the streets of London or the UK will be constantly checking over their shoulder worried about whether they can wear their visibly Jewish signs on the streets and that's something which is a shame on our country.

"This is not just an attack on the Jewish people, it's an attack in our buildings, on our culture, our way of life, and in the most Jewish area in the UK."

Police have charged a 45-year-old man with attempted murder after two Jewish men were stabbed in north London on Wednesday.

Essa Suleiman has been charged with two counts of attempted murder and one count of possession of a bladed article in a public place over the incident in Golders Green, the Metropolitan Police said.

Suleiman, of Camberwell, south London, was also charged with attempted murder in relation to a separate incident in Great Dover Street in Southwark earlier the same day.

He will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday.