Susan Pollack
Survivor of Auschwitz speaks about her experiences during the Holocaust
Susan Pollack was born Zsuzsanna Biall on 9 September 1930 in Felsögód, Hungary. In May 1944 her family were arrested and held in the Vac ghetto and Monor internment camp. Along with her mother and brother, she was moved to Auschwitz, in the last transport of Hungarians. Her mother was gassed on arrival; her brother survived, in the squad moving bodies to the ovens. Susan was transferred to the Gubben slave labour camp and finally force-marched to Bergen-Belsen.
"Because I was there, I speak for those who can’t. The great evil that pervaded so many minds in a civilized country destroyed more than fifty members of my family. It is a lesson for all time: will later generations stand up for the rights of others, or remain the silent majority? My hope is for a unified protest against all evil, which diminishes not only the victim, but humanity as a whole.”
