Susan Pollack

Full size 1836 × 2447 pixels Survivors’ portraits in Monotype, by the Children of GRS Cheder
Susan Pollack

Susan Pollack

‘The experience is always with me. Were we human beings, were they human beings? Why did they make us so inhuman and create such devastation? I’ve been able to relegate it to a more manageable place in my psyche but I’ve never lost it. I’ve learnt to live with it. I try to remain strong; I cry out when I think about it. When I allow myself to get emotional I could cry non-stop, even now.’

Susan Pollack, UK, who was sent to Auschwitz 70 years ago aged 14, was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust.