Holocaust survivor Iby Knill
Fri, 13 Feb 2015 09:59:00 GMT
Holocaust survivor Iby Knill...
...talks about how she overcame her fears to write the book and what lessons she wants the readers to learn from her story.
While growing up in Czechoslovakia during the 1920s and 30s, Iby Knill was not aware that she and her fully-assimilated family were Jews, and did not even know what it meant to be Jewish. But its significance became all too apparent when Nazi racial laws were imposed, leading to inconveniences, indignities, dispossession, deportation and finally a journey to Auschwitz, where her father was one of the last to be gassed.
Iby’s survival – after immense hardship and against many odds – led to further journeys, including marriage to a British army officer, a new life in England, adoption of Christianity and eventually, after 60 years, the decision to tell the story of her wartime experiences, which had been locked away in her mind.
In this interview, given prior to her talk at the University of Huddersfield's Holocaust Memorial Day event, Iby talks about how she overcame her fears to write the book and the lessons she wants the readers to learn from her story.
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