Born Zsuzsanna L�ffler in Budapest in 1933, Susan Garfield immigrated to Canada as a war orphan in 1948 and lived in Vegreville, Alberta, before moving to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where she still lives. In 1954 she married Harry Garfinkel (Garfield) and started a family, eventually raising three children. Susan later earned a bachelor of arts (honours) from the University of Winnipeg and a bachelor of recreation studies from the University of Manitoba. Her English translation of her Hungarian wartime diary was published in Voices of Winnipeg Holocaust Survivors (2010), and her story as a new immigrant to Canada was told in Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947?1955 (2015).