During international football matches, Suan is one of two Arab players who refuse to sing during the playing of Hatikvah, Israel's national anthem, because it mentions only Jews.
A former member of the Sonderkommando reports that the song was spontaneously sung by Czech Jews in the entryway to the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chamber in 1944.
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In his book, he recounted a story of how he saw a group of countrymen singing the Hatikvah and the Czech national anthem before they entered the gas chamber.
The last official rabbi of Białystok, Dr. Gedali Rozenman, at the end of the prayer and Jewish hymn "Hatikvah" would intone the Polish national anthem "Jeszcze Polska nie zginela".