Susan Pollack, 84, described being taken from Hungary to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, as trial of former SS guard continues
An 84-year-old British woman who lost her parents and 50 other members of her extended family during the Holocaust has recalled her experiences of the Nazi death camps at the trial of a former SS guard charged with complicity in the murder of 300,000 Jews.
Susan Pollack, who lives in London, stared directly at judge Franz Kompisch as she answered questions about her time in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen and ignored 93-year-old defendant Oskar Gröning, who watched impassively.
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As we were losing weight, we weren’t able to use our minds anymore
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