Susan Pollack
Auschwitz Survivor

Susan Pollack has been tireless in giving talks about the Holocaust - emaciated bodies crawling with lice, starvation, gas chambers and mountains of corpses. This is both her therapy and mission. "It is my crusade against a repetition of the Holocaust," she says. Susan was 13 when she was deported with her mother and brother to Auschwitz in the last of Eichmann's transportation of Hungarian Jews. They were told that it was part of a resettlement plan and that everything would soon blow over. "The journey to Auschwitz was a gradual stupefied loss of hope. Day after day in a dark, closed wagon, with no hygiene, no food or water, people dying."

In 1993, the Hungarian government told Susan that she had been awarded compensation for her suffering by the Nazis. She was allocated government stock worth 132,000 fortints - worth between £600 and £700.

50 members of Susan's family were killed.

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