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'''Suzi Diamond / Suzi Molnar''' (F / Hungary, 1942)
#REDIRECT [[Tibor & Suszi Molnar (MF / Hungary, 1939, 1942), Holocaust survivors]]
 
* One of the five Bergen-Belsen children brought to Ireland by dr. Bob Collis.
 
* KEYWORDS : <[[Ravensbrück]]> <[[Bergen-Belsen]]> <[[Liberation of Bergen-Belsen]]>
 
== Biography ==
 
 
== hetireland.org (January 2016) ==
 
I was born Suzi Molnar in Hungary, in 1942. We were a small family comprising my mother Gisela, my father Sandor, my brother Terry, and myself.
 
In 1944 Adolf Eichmann oversaw the round-up and deportation of more than 430,000 Hungarian Jews to
Auschwitz-Birkenau, where most of them perished in the gas chambers. During those months, the Gestapo came for my mother, brother and me.
 
We were forced on to one of the last transports to leave Hungary in September 1944. We were deported first to Ravensbrück and then to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where we remained until liberation in 1945. My mother died of TB soon after the British arrived. Bob Collis brought us back with him to Ireland, and eventually arranged for Terry and me to be adopted by a Jewish couple in Dublin, Elsie and Willie Samuels. Terry and I were very young children and had been told that we were the only two members of our family to have survived the Holocaust. In time, we both married and reared our own children. My brother passed away in 2007 – which makes me deeply aware of how fast the clock is ticking for all of us who are Holocaust survivors.
 
But last year my story changed...
 
In Spring 2015, Holocaust Education Trust Ireland was contacted by someone in Hungary called Sandor Molnar, who thought he might be related to me. Over the course of emails and exchanges of photographs and documents, it transpires that he is indeed a relation – he is my first cousin! He is named after my father and he has filled in a few details about my family, which I had not previously known.
 
I have learned that my father was one of four brothers who lived in the small town of Karcag about 100 miles from Budapest, where they ran a timber business. My new cousin, who was born after the war, is the son of the youngest brother, Andor, who survived the Holocaust along with another brother, Lazlo. My father and the fourth brother, Béla, perished in a Russian labour camp in 1943.
 
Last June I visited Karcag and saw my grandfather’s house, the Jewish cemetery where my grandparents are buried, and the synagogue where all my family prayed. 778 Jews lived in Karcag before the war; 461 of them were murdered in the Holocaust. There is a memorial scroll on the synagogue wall recording the Jews from Karcag who perished in the Holocaust. My family is listed on it, but now the scroll has
to be corrected because my brother and I survived! I am gradually being introduced to new first cousins and their children living in Hungary and in the United States. This is all very new information for me to absorb as a new and emotional chapter in my personal story is beginning to unfold...
 
 
[[Category:Holocaust Children, 1942 (subject)|1942 Diamond]]
 
[[Category:Ravensbrück (subject)|1942 Diamond]]
 
[[Category:Bergen-Belsen (subject)|1942 Diamond]]
 
[[Category:Liberation of Bergen-Belsen (subject)|1942 Diamond]]

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