Alfréd Wetzler
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Alfréd Israel Wetzler, who wrote under the alias Jozef Lánik, was a Slovak Jewish writer. He is known for escaping from Auschwitz concentration camp and co-writing the Vrba-Wetzler Report, which helpe
Alfred Wetzler
Internal SS report on the escape. (1944)
Rudolf Vrba
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Rudolf Vrba was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He escaped from the camp in April 1944, at the height
Alfréd Wetzler
…Czechoslovakia, he was a worker in Trnava during the period 1936–1940. He was sent to the Birkenau (Auschwitz II) camp in 1942 and escaped from it with Rudolf Vrba on 10 April 1944. Together with Rudolf Vrba he wrote up the story of his experiences in Slovak as Auschwitz, Tomb of Four Million People, a factual…
Vrba in New York, November 1978, during an interview with Claude Lanzmann for the documentary Shoah
Vrba at school (front row, fourth left), Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1935–1936
Trnava, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia, 2014)
Majdanek concentration camp, 2008