Could a Holocaust happen again? Iby Knill’s story is a horrifying example of how an ordinary life can be turned upside down by the forces of political extremism.
VE Day: the girl who survived Auschwitz
A childhood shattered: Iby's family was not a religious one and she attended a German language school until authorities forced her to move to a Jewish school. Glossary
Jewish - Relating or belonging to the religion of Judaism.
Czechoslovakia - Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.
Star of David - A six-pointed star recognised as a symbol of Judaism.
Hungary - A country in central Europe. Viktor Orban has been its prime minister since 2010.
Nazi - A German political party of the twentieth century, led by Adolf Hitler. The Nazis controlled Germany from the early 1930s until the end of World War II.
Allied - Relating to Britain and its allies in World War One and Two.
Concentration camp - A large prison for people held without legal justification, such as political prisoners or persecuted minorities. The first concentration camps were built by British colonial rulers in South Africa, but the term is most associated with Nazi camps, some of which were used to execute Jewish and other inmates as well as to imprison them.
Auschwitz - Nazi death camp where over a million people lost their lives during WW2.
Armaments - Military weapons and equipment.
Typhoid - A dangerous bacterial infection.
Bergen-Belsen - A concentration camp in northern Germany. Although it was not a death camp, overcrowding, lack of food and poor sanitation meant that tens of thousands died there of disease and starvation.
Holocaust - The murder of six million Jewish people in Europe by Nazi Germany. Members of other minority groups were also killed.
Roma - A travelling community who are thought to have originated in India.
Genocide - The annihilation of a people, either through killing of its members, or through the suppression of its culture.
Uighur - China denies that camps for Uighur people in Xinjiang are detention camps. Officials say they are “vocational, educational and training centres”.