Informing the world about the horrors of Auschwitz: 100 years since the birth of Rudolf Vrba

Name: Informing the world about the horrors of Auschwitz: 100 years since the birth of Rudolf Vrba
Uploaded: 2024-09-13T13:32:09+00:00
Channel: Martin Hladík
Description: Today marks the centenary of the birth of Rudolf Vrba, a Czechoslovak and Jewish biochemist, who escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942 together with fellow prisoner Alfréd Wetzler. Together they published the Vrba–Wetzler report. This eyewitness description is credited with waking the world up to the full horrors happening at Auschwitz. Born Walter

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Today marks the centenary of the birth of Rudolf Vrba, a Czechoslovak and Jewish biochemist, who escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942 together with fellow prisoner Alfréd Wetzler. Together they published the Vrba–Wetzler report. This eyewitness description is credited with waking the world up to the full horrors happening at Auschwitz.

Born Walter Rosenberg in Topoľčany, Slovakia, Vrba was one of four children.

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