A Leeds resident and Holocaust survivor has died 77 years after escaping a WWII concentration camp.
Iby Knill, 98, sadly died on Easter Sunday - the same day she was freed from the Auschwitz camp in a Nazi-occupied Poland. She escaped during a forced march to Bergen Belsen in 1945 when the appearance of US tanks caused Nazi guards to flee.
Iby was born in Bratislava to Jewish parents who smuggled her across the border to Hungary after she was forcibly removed from her school by authorities. She stayed with a cousin and one of his friends before becoming a member of the Resistance effort but was imprisoned and beaten for her activism, released and then re-captured for being in the country illegally in 1944.
