I crawled out of my hut to die. But the British Army found me. I was close to death, a living corpse': An agonizing story of an old woman

A Holocaust survivor who testified at 'Auschwitz's bookkeeper' trial relives her unimaginably harrowing ordeal says that she crawled out of her hut to die but the British Army found her. "I was close to death, a living corpse" she said.

Susan Pollack, 84, from London, (left and pictured aged nine, centre) was just 13 when she and her terrified family were herded like cattle on trains to Auschwitz in the summer of 1944 (bottom right) from their home in Hungary. She had already watched as her father was beaten and thrown into a truck by the Nazis never to be seen again.


But that paled in comparison to the horror she witnessed over the next few months at the death camp. Her mother was sent to the gas chamber, her brother was forced to dispose of the bodies when they were removed from the ovens. And she was sent to a section where Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele, known as the 'Angel of Death', selected inmates for his abhorrent human experiments.
 
She was then sent on a death march to the Bergen-Belsen camp as the end of the war approached. She said: 'The place was death. There were mountains of corpses, infectious diseases, malnutrition, a total lack of hygiene and sanitation - people were dying and nobody was cleaning up the dead'.

In an emotional interview with MailOnline Mrs Pollack described the trauma that has haunted her throughout her life (with husband top right) and revealed how she can't forgive Oskar Groening, a guard at the camp who she testified against during his current trial in Germany.


Read the interview here