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.
Allied - Relating to Britain and its allies in World War One and Two.
Auschwitz - Nazi death camp where over a million people lost their lives during WW2.
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.
Nazis - 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.
Roma - A travelling community who are thought to have originated in India.
Far-Right - The extreme right wing of a political party or group, favouring free enterprise, private rather than state ownership and traditional values.
Genocide - The annihilation of a people, either through killing of its members, or through the suppression of its culture.
Sterilising - Performing medical operations to make someone unable to have children.
Uighur - China denies that camps for Uighur people in Xinjiang are detention camps. Officials say they are “vocational, educational and training centres”.