[1] Her father Jože Sušnik was murdered at the beginning of the Second World War and when she tried to escape to Italy, she was caught and imprisoned in the Ajdovščina prison.

[1] At the end of 1945, Sušnik left the country and spent some time in a refugee camp in Lienz in Austrian Carinthia, which she was able to leave after the intervention of the Jesuits and go to Rome.

[1] Sušnik reorganized the museum and enlarged its collection, while also running the richest library on indigenous peoples in Latin America.

[3] For 20 years, Sušnik headed the Department of American Archeology and Ethnology at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Asunción.

[4] In 2020, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia honored Sušnik by organizing special events at certain diplomatic missions and consular post on the occasion of her birth centenary.