Language:
English
Pages:
VII, 277 Seiten, [4] Blatt
,
Ill.
Year of publication:
2011
Keywords:
Konzentrationslager Auschwitz
;
Krankenschwester
;
Autobiografie
;
Schoa
Abstract:
In her book, Iby tells of her early childhood in Czechoslovakia and of how her parents - alarmed at the persecution of Jews in Germany - smuggled her over the border to Hungary. The Woman Without A Number also reveals how she was caught by the security police and then imprisoned and tortured, not only as a result of her Jewish connections but for having entered Hungary illegally and for aiding the resistance movement. Eventually, Iby was sent to the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. In June 1944, Iby Knill left Auschwitz-Birkenau by volunteering to travel as a nurse with a slave labour transport of 500 women. Once transported to Lippstadt, she was put in charge of a hospital unit and risked her life protecting the weak and helpless from the gas chambers.
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