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Rudolf Vrba
Slovak-Jewish Auschwitz escapee, Canadian biochemist (1924-2006) · Canada · Doctors · Died at 81
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Something wrong?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 of the Holocaust, and co-wrote the Vrba-Wetzler report, a detailed report about the mass murder taking place there.
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Vrba at school (front row, fourth left), Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1935-1936
Majdanek concentration camp, 2008
Auschwitz I, 2008
"Kanada" barracks, c. May 1944
"Selection" of Hungarian Jews, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, May/June 1944
Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the extermination camp
Rough ground plan of Auschwitz II, showing the area under construction, from the Vrba-Wetzler report (1944)Awards
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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 of the Holocaust, and co-wrote the Vrba-Wetzler report, a detailed report about the mass murder taking place there. The report, distributed by George Mantello in Switzerland, is credited with having halted the mass deportation of Hungary's Jews to Auschwitz in July 1944, saving more than 200,000 lives. After the war, Vrba trained as a biochemist, working mostly in England and Canada.
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