Three Years Of Deportation / AURELIA POLLAK, a modest typist in a Slovaktown, was deported in 1942 to Auschwitz where she became a Secret-Bearer, namely one of thefew Jewish office workers in the SS administration
who had access to all prisoners' files,camp correspondence and investigation protocols. The verynature of this work, which included the recording of the Holocaust in its entirety, condemned a witness to death, yet, against all odds, AureliaPollak survived.
After the war she described her harrowing expriences in THREE YEARS of DEPORTATION, but used this report only as a reliable book of reference for the many testimonies she was requested to give.
TOVA YANAY edited the German text and translated it into English and Hebrew, adding the author's photographs, letters and documents. Her Complementary Notes touch upon the chapters of the book and events mentioned in the addenda. Having known A. Pollak all her life, she also was able to throw a new - sometimes unexpected - light on her background, showing scenes from her life before and after World War II.
