A CONCENTRATION camp survivor watched herself on the big screen in Teesside as she fulfilled a promise made over 60 years ago amid the horrors of Auschwitz.

Iby Knill was at the screening of a documentary made about her by student filmmakers Robin Pepper, from Northallerton, Mark Oxley and Ian Orwin, both from Middlesbrough, at Cineworld in Middlesbrough.

The documentary made by the Teesside University students is being added to the archives at the Auschwitz Museum in Poland.

Mrs Knill, who lives in Leeds, kept her incarceration in Auschwitz a secret from friends and family for almost 60 years because she felt unable to talk about it, until she began writing her story down in a book ten years ago.

And by making the documentary she fulfilled a promise made to adolescent twins in Auschwitz, who, undergoing horrific experiments and aware they were going to the gas chambers, begged her to tell the world what she had seen.

Mr Pepper, 21, was so moved by Mrs Knill’s account in her book, The Woman Without a Number, that he asked if he could make the film about her as part of his final year project.

He said: “She was really eager to make the documentary. It’s an honour that her son has asked for a copy, and that we are playing a part in helping her fulfil her promise.”