A 98-year-old Holocaust survivor has opened up about her past, revealing why she would never remove her Auschwitz tattoo.
Lily Ebert appeared on the UK breakfast show Good Morning Britain to mark Holocaust Memorial Day last week...
The Auschwitz survivor - who has 1.6 million followers on TikTok - was joined by her 18-year-old great-grandson Dov Forman who helps to run her social media page.
Talking to hosts Ben Sheppard and Kate Garraway, Ebert described how she feels a responsibility to share her story for "the millions who cannot talk."
"My story is never my story," she said, adding: "It is the story of millions."
Ebert was just 20 when she, her mother, and her five siblings were taken to Auschwitz in 1944 on one of the last trains to enter the camp.
After enduring months of hard labor, the family was transported to another camp - Altenburg - where Ebert's mother and some of her siblings were condemned to death in the gas chambers.
In a book published at the end of last year - Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live - Ebert described the harrowing reality of life in the concentration camps.
She also shares her story on TikTok, using the social media platform to spread awareness about what happened during the Holocaust...
During her interview on GMB, the conversation turned to the prisoner number 'A-10572' which Ebert still has tattooed on her wrist.
Garraway asked the survivor whether she had ever considered having the tattoo removed, or if she kept it "as a reminder."
"I have never thought about getting it removed," Ebert said. "I want to show the world, the world should know how deep humans can go, fellow humans give a tattoo. You were not humans, you were not Lily Ebert, you were a number."
"Another human can take away my humanity," she added.
Her great-grandson Dov described the moment one of his friends asked to see the Auschwitz tattoo.
"That was the day I realized it was my mission to tell her story,' he said.
"It is our responsibility to make sure Nazi crimes are not forgotten. One day in the future there won't be survivors and it will be up to us to remind everyone of the Nazis' crimes to humanity," the teenager - who is one of Lily's 34 great-grandchildren - added.
Lily is one of seven Holocaust survivors whose portrait has been commissioned as part of Prince Charles' initiative to mark Holocaust Memorial Day this year.
The portraits will be exhibited at Buckingham Palace from January 27 to February 13, and in Edinburgh's Palace of Holyroodhouse from March 17 to June 6.
They will also be the subject of a 60-minute BBC documentary titled Survivors: Portraits of the Holocaust.
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