What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
On Monday I went along to hear a remarkable woman called Iby Knill tell her story. She was truly inspiring, but I’ll come to that later. Iby is 93 and a holocaust survivor. I thought I knew the story of the holocaust, the Nazi’s ‘final solution’ of exterminating the Jews
While growing up in Czechoslovakia during the 1920s and 30s, Iby Knill was not aware that she and her fully-assimilated family were Jews, and did not even know what it meant to be Jewish. But its significance became all too apparent when Nazi racial laws were imposed, leading to inconveniences,