Holocaust Survivor Breaks Silence

Hope it lifted some of the burden.
"A grandmother who survived the Holocaust has finally spoken about the horrors of Auschwitz 70 years after promising a girl she would tell the world what she had witnessed.
Iby Knill, 90, recalls how on the first night she spent at the death camp in July 1944 a frail teenager crawled over to her and begged 'if you live, please tell our story.'
Four years ago Mrs knill took a course in theology and it was during one of the group sessions that she finally revealed she was sent to the concentration camp when she was 20.
In a moving testament she describes the realisation that she faced being gassed like six million others. She explains in a new documentary that during a session on her course a group at Leeds University, in the city where she now lives, they were discussing whether the Holocaust was a result of evil or sin.
The tutor said that 'only a person who was there could answer that question'. Mrs Knill responded simply with 'I was there'.
For Mrs Knill it was like the floodgates had been opened and, fulfilling her promise to the unknown girl, she decided to write her memoirs.
Remembering her terrible first night at Auschwitz, she said: 'The girl told me that her and her sister were going to be experimented on.
'She said they were then going to be gassed and therefore exterminated. She made me promise to tell the story of the camps, if I were to live.
'Of course I said yes, but after the war was over it didn’t seem right to talk about what had happened.'"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2518662/Holocaust-survivor-fulfils-promise-doomed-Auschwitz-child.html#ixzz2mepRpq3X

 

If she was a woman who was sent to Auschwitz, how was she not gassed right away? Usually the women were immediately gassed, and if not, shortly after arrival. Also, I'm surprised the girl who was talking to her at the camp knew she was going to be experimented on and gassed. Usually the Nazi bastards tried to make it appear as nothing was out of the ordinary, like the gassing and other nasty crimes against life were a secret and last minute action.

 

The Germans may have kept it a secret from the outside but on the inside, everybody knew. How can you hide the disappearance of so many arrivals? As for all women being gassed, I don't believe so as some were needed for labor.

 

Wow! I've told this story in several 30th Division threads. These women were liberated at Kaunitz, but were actually from a nearby camp at Lippstadt.