Nearly a year ago, Lily Ebert and her great-grandson, Dov Forman, began a TikTok account for the purpose of sharing Ebert’s story of surviving the Holocaust. Hundreds of videos and many millions of views later, Jonathan Edwards writes, the two are expanding their mission:

Unlike her mother, brother and sister, Lily Ebert survived the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. After the camp was liberated, Ebert made a promise to herself: she would tell people what had happened there and, in doing so, change the world.

Now, at ninety-eight, Ebert is keeping that promise in a way no one could have imagined in 1945. . . . Since their inaugural video on February 9 last year, the two have posted more than 380 videos on the social-media app, drawing in 1.7 million followers and amassing some 25 million likes in the process. Success on TikTok led to a book they’ve co-authored—Lily’s Promise—which is due out in May. Prince Charles wrote a foreword for the book.

Ebert’s TikTok campaign comes as anti-Semitism resurges across the United States. Anti-Semitic incidents—harassment, assault, and vandalism—have spiked 60 percent in the past five years, reaching near-record levels, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. Those have been punctuated by high-profile events like the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville and synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh in 2018 and outside San Diego in 2019.

Ebert said the rise of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial makes talking about the atrocities all the more important.

Early Friday morning, Israel attacked military installations near the Iranian cities of Isfahan and nearby Natanz, the latter being one of the hubs of the country’s nuclear program. Jerusalem is not taking credit for the attack, and none of the details are too certain, but it seems that the attack involved multiple drones, likely launched from within Iran, as well as one or more missiles fired from Syrian or Iraqi airspace. Strikes on Syrian radar systems shortly beforehand probably helped make the attack possible, and there were reportedly strikes on Iraq as well.

Iran itself is downplaying the attack, but the S-300 air-defense batteries in Isfahan appear to have been destroyed or damaged. This is a sophisticated Russian-made system positioned to protect the Natanz nuclear installation. In other words, Israel has demonstrated that Iran’s best technology can’t protect the country’s skies from the IDF. As Yossi Kuperwasser puts it, the attack, combined with the response to the assault on April 13,

clarified to the Iranians that whereas we [Israelis] are not as vulnerable as they thought, they are more vulnerable than they thought. They have difficulty hitting us, but we have no difficulty hitting them.

Nobody knows exactly how the operation was carried out. . . . It is good that a question mark hovers over . . . what exactly Israel did. Let’s keep them wondering. It is good for deniability and good for keeping the enemy uncertain.

The fact that we chose targets that were in the vicinity of a major nuclear facility but were linked to the Iranian missile and air forces was a good message. It communicated that we can reach other targets as well but, as we don’t want escalation, we chose targets nearby that were involved in the attack against Israel. I think it sends the message that if we want to, we can send a stronger message. Israel is not seeking escalation at the moment.