Survivor Talk by Iby Knill BEM

Iby Knill was born in Bratislava, then part of Czechoslovakia. She escaped to Hungary shortly after the Nazi invasion, but was later caught and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Iby survived selection at Auschwitz and was later transported for forced labour in the hospital of an armaments factory in the Ruhr. In the final stages of the war the SS evacuated the factory and took the prisoners on a forced march further into Germany. Iby was liberated while on the road on Easter Sunday, 1945.

After liberation Iby worked as an interpreter for the British Army in Germany. It was here that she met her husband, Bert, an army officer. The couple moved to the UK and made their life here with their two children. Now 95, Iby still lives in Leeds.

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