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Rudolf Vrba

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The Auschwitz Escape | True Story Thriller | UK Trailer | 2021

 

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The Vrba-Wetzler report: Documenting the atrocities at Auschwitz

 

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Rudolf Vrba, Alfred Wetzler, 70th anniversary of the escape from Auschwitz

 

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The "Dark Heart" of Auschwitz-Birkenau | Secrets of the Dead | PBS

 

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Fighters Budoshow - Rudolf Vrba

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 became known for having escaped from the camp in April 1944, at the height of the Holocaust, and for having co-written a detailed report about the mass murder that was taking place there. Distribution of the report 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.
  • Personal 

  • Majdanek 

  • Auschwitz I 

  • "Kanada" commando 

  • Estimates of numbers murdered 

  • Hungarian Jews 

  • Czech family camp 

  • Escape 

  • Walking to Slovakia 

  • Meeting with the Jewish Council 

  • Writing the report 

  • Rosin and Mordowicz escape 

  • Importance of dates 

  • News coverage 

  • Meetings with Martilotti and Weissmandl 

  • Deportations halted 

  • War Refugee Board publication 

  • Resistance activities 

  • Marriage and education 

  • Defection to Israel, move to England 

  • Trial of Adolf Eichmann 

  • Trial of Robert Mulka, book publication 

  • Move to Canada, Claude Lanzmann interview 

  • Trial of Ernst Zündel 

  • Meeting with George Klein 

  • Death 

  • Documentaries, books, annual walk 

  • Scholarship 

  • About Hungarian Jews 

  • ''Attorney-General v. Gruenwald'' 

  • Criticism of Jewish Councils 

  • Responses 

  • Vrba's place in Holocaust historiography 

  • Holocaust 

  • Academic research