Susan Singerman was interviewed by Gillian Livingstone in 1988 for the National Life Stories project Living Memory of the Jewish Community. The interview is archived at the British Library (collection reference C410/043) and the recording was previously accessible online via the British Library Sounds website. Many British Library services, including the Sound and Moving Image… Continue Reading Susan Singerman – National Life Stories
Susan was born in Szekesfehervar, Hungary. Three months after the Germans occupied Hungary, in June 1944 she and her family were sent by cattle truck to Auschwitz. Chosen to live by the notorious Josef Mengele, Susan was the only member of her family to survive. She describes the horrors of life there and later in… Continue Reading Susan Singerman
The following items were published in the 1960’s and were the first time Susan Singerman spoke about her experiences. They are reproduced with permission of Herald and Times Group and by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow City Council www.glasgowlife.org.uk [envira-gallery id=”2775″]
This section is written and read by Howard Singerman, Susan’s son. He explains, as Susan was unable to do in her final months, how she contributed so much to the continuing struggle against racism. Howard Singerman: When my mother, Susan Singerman, was interviewed for the Gathering the Voices Project in August, 2010, she was seriously… Continue Reading Susan Singerman – Reflection On Life
In this section Susan talks of going to Glasgow University and becoming a languages teacher. She was encouraged to go to Garnethill Synagogue. Int : Did you decide after the year that you weren’t cut out to be a nurse? Susan: No, I had two small children. They were going to be in my care… Continue Reading Susan Singerman – Integration
Susan describes how she considered going to Palestine after the war but how, in the end, she came to Scotland and worked first as a trainee nurse. Int: You were going to explain how you came to Ayr. Susan: We were going to do this business of the false marriage. They sent away the Regiment;… Continue Reading Susan Singerman – Settling In
Susan explains that she had some distant relatives in Scotland and that is why she went there after the war was over Int: When you came to Scotland, how old were you then? Susan: I think I was 19. Int : You were liberated by the Americans and somehow you ended up here in Scotland.… Continue Reading Susan Singerman – Immigration
Susan notes that Jews in Hungary were only rounded up in 1944. She speaks of her family and herself being transported to Auschwitz but explains how it was that she survived and the others died. She describes how she was chosen to be part of a work detail in Lippstadt in Germany and describes her… Continue Reading Susan Singerman – Life During The War
In this very short section Susan Singerman tells of her birth in Hungary Int: Today is Saturday 14th August 2010 and I’m here to interview my mother-in-law Susan Singerman. When and where were you born and what was your name at birth? Susan: I was born in Western Hungary which was called Transnubia in a… Continue Reading Susan Singerman – Life Before The War