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Rudolf Vrba, who as a young man escaped from Auschwitz ... he was born Walter Rosenberg–nor that of fellow escapee Alfred Wetzler was given. It was used as evidence at the Nuremberg trials.
Eyes wide with fear, Jewish prisoners Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler held their breath while the Auschwitz guard climbed on top of the woodpile they were hiding in. And as his dog began barking ...
The whistleblower whose story had gripped me was a Slovak Jew born as Walter Rosenberg, though he would later adopt the name Rudolf Vrba ... gotten away. Vrba and Wetzler then crept from their ...
Then, over 11 days, travelling only at night, and with no map or compass, Walter Rosenberg, aged 19, and Fred Wetzler ... Rosenberg would be reborn as ‘Rudolf Vrba’. For Fred, the move ...
“The Escape Artist,” by Jonathan Freedland, tells of Walter Rosenberg and Alfred Wetzler’s flight ... and name of an Aryan Czech — Rudolf Vrba. That name, washed clean of any Germanic ...
His name was Rudolf Vrba, hugely charismatic ... Helped by members of the camp resistance, Vrba and his friend Alfred Wetzler inveigled their way into the lesser guarded outer camp at Auschwitz ...
In 1944, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Their harrowing testimonies and detailed sketches of the camp's mass extermination practices exposed the ...
In 1944, Rudolf Vrba gave the Allies an eyewitness report ... And those two were Rudolph Vrba and his friend Alfred Wetzler. Horrified by the events they ­witnessed in Auschwitz, Vrba and Wetzler ...
When Alfred Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba escaped Auschwitz in 1944, they didn’t just save themselves. That may change with the release of the Slovakian film “The Auschwitz Report,” a ...
Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler were the first Jews to escape from Auschwitz and warn the world of concentration camp genocide. In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler became the first Jews ...
Two Slovaks, Alfréd Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba, who successfully escaped the Auschwitz concentration camp in April 1944 and wrote a report about it, will be honoured with a memorial room in Žilina. There ...