A Holocaust survivor kidnapped by the Nazis from her Hungarian home aged 13 shared her story with shocked pupils at Slough's Eden Girls' School on Holocaust Memorial Day yesterday.

Pupils from the school in Bath Road heard the devastating testimony of Holocaust survivor Susan Pollock.

She shared it with the pupils via a live video link where they were able to ask questions and listen to her tragic account.

She was taken by the Nazis alongside her mother and brother when she was just 13.

At Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp, Mrs Pollock’s mother was immediately sent to her death in the gas chambers.

Mrs Pollock later testified that she was so dehumanised by her experience, she was unable to cry when she finally discovered her mother’s fate.

In 1945 she was forced to walk over 500 miles barefoot in freezing conditions, to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. She braved many hardships on the way knowing that if she fell in the snow she would be shot dead where she lay.

She was liberated in April 1945 by British soldiers who discovered 60,000 prisoners in the camp. She was severely malnourished and unable to walk describing herself as ‘a virtual corpse’ who would soon die.

Tragically, she later discovered she had lost around 50 relatives at the hands of the Nazis.

Now the grandmother of six, who has written a book about her experience and dedicates her time to educating younger generations about the Holocaust.

Assistant principal Shegufta Farooq told how pupils had been deeply moved by Mrs Pollock’s testimony.

She said: “I know that they were moved and thanks to her testimony they will now have a more personal understanding of one of the darkest periods of humanity."

Holocaust Memorial Day marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Eden Girls’ School is a secondary free school for pupils aged 11 to 16 in Slough. It opened in September 2015.