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
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
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
Rudolf Vrba
…1944, saving more than 200,000 lives. After the war, Vrba trained as a biochemist, working mostly in England and Canada. Vrba and his fellow escapee Alfréd Wetzler fled Auschwitz three weeks after German forces invaded Hungary and shortly before the SS began mass deportations of Hungary's Jewish population to the…
Alfred Wetzler
Internal SS report on the escape. (1944)