Dov Forman

Dov Forman is an international best-selling author and a social media creator, living in London.
==Personal life==
Forman is a religious Jew of Ashkenazi descent. He is the youngest of three children and currently lives in northwest London. Forman is one of 35 great grandchildren of Holocaust survivor, Lily Ebert.
==Activism==
At the age of sixteen, during the Covid pandemic, amid the rise of Antisemitism in the world, Forman became determined to raise awareness of the Holocaust and anti-Jewish racism . Forman took to Twitter to share his great grandmother's story of surviving the Holocaust and quickly went viral, with Forman's Tweets reaching over 60 million Twitter users in 2020 and 2021.
Forman is an advocate for finding new, creative and engaging ways to teach the younger generation about the Holocaust. Forman has worked with LADbible|the LADbible Group and Twitch.Tv to bring Holocaust survivors to their platforms, for the first time. Forman has given talks about 'social media and Holocaust commemoration' at both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. In November 2020, Forman spoke at the UK Parliament in favour of the UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre. Forman has also given interviews to more than 150 news outlets and spoken on international radio and television, in over 30 countries.
In February 2021, Forman set up a TikTok account to raise awareness about the Holocaust, and the consequences of hate, among people his own age. Forman posts videos together with his great grandmother, answering questions about the Holocaust and Judaism. In June 2021, the pair reached a staggering one million followers on the video-sharing app.
Dov co-authored The Sunday Times Best-Seller Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live which includes a foreword by Prince Charles. Lily's Promise was published by Pan Macmillan in the UK on 2 September 2021 and HarperCollins has scheduled US publication on 10 May 2022. Lily's Promise is a three-time Sunday Times Best-Seller and was the Waterstones and Daily Mail UK's best history book of 2021. Lily's Promise is published in more than 10 languages, including - but not limited to - German, Polish, Hungarian, Dutch, Czech, Slovak, Chinese and French.
In his deeply personal foreword to Lily's Promise, His Royal Highness Prince Charles - the heir to the throne - praised the book and paid tribute to Dov for his “engaging and effective use of social media” in sharing his great grandmother's story. He said Forman has “shown himself more than capable of carrying forward” the task of remembrance; “Dov has demonstrated a determination to share his great grandmother’s story with a global audience.”.
Forman has worked on educational projects with various departments of the UK Government (including the Home Office, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office|Foreign Office, the Department for Education and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities).
In November 2021, Forman - together with the Jewish News - set up a private meeting and a tour of Kinloss synagogue with former Yorkshire cricket club player, Azeem Rafiq. Rafiq, who gave a testimony in parliament earlier that month about anti-Muslim prejudice at his cricket club, was later revealed to have used hateful language towards Jews on social media in 2011. Forman set up this meeting as part of Rafiq's reconciliation with the Jewish community.
==Award==
In November 2021, Forman received the Points of Light award from the UK Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street, in recognition of exceptional services to Holocaust education.
In March 2022, Forman - alongside his great grandmother Ebert - is due to be presented with the Jewish Care community award by Andrew Neil at the Jewish Care annual community lunch, hosted by the Topland Group.
Category:English people
Category:English authors
Category:2003 births