Iby knill biography of michaels

Monday January 27 is the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Here, a Holocaust survivor shares her story with Michael Alexander.

It’s more than 75 years since Czechoslovakian-born Jew Iby Knill spent her last night in Auschwitz.
But the now year-old grandmother will never forget the promise she made to a dying teenager that inspires her to tell the world about the Holocaust to this day.
Iby was just 20 years-old when she was rounded up with hundreds of other ‘illegal immigrants’ after the German invasion of Hungary during the Second World War and sent to the “gates of hell”.

On June 12, , after being interned in a refugee camp as a “political prisoner” for assisting efforts to smuggle others out of the country, she and hundreds of Hungarian Jews were rounded up, packed onto cattle trucks without food, water, or air an