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Rudolf Vrba (born Walter Rosenberg; 11 September 1924 – 27 March 2006) was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in …

Rudolf Vrba was a Slovak Jewish biochemist, one of five Jewish prisoners to ever escape Auschwitz, the most lethal of the extermination camps in existence during World War II.

Apr 21, 2006 · Thanks to Polish civilians and escapees from the camp, the world learned the truth about the Nazi German Auschwitz Concentration Camp while the war was still on. Vrba was born Walter …

Vrba-Wetzler Report Two Slovakian Jewish prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, escaped the camp in April 1944.

Vrba believed that many of the 437,000 Hungarian Jews sent to Auschwitz between May 15 and July 7, 1944 — when 12,000 Jews were being dispatched by train every day — would have resisted or …

Interviewed by the French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann for the ground-breaking documentary Shoah (1985), Vrba discussed resistance in Auschwitz and his escape from the camp.

Rudolf 'Rudi' Vrba, born Walter Rosenberg (September 11, 1924 – March 27, 2006), was a professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia.

Vrba joined the Czechoslovak partisan units in September 1944, taking Rudolf Vrba as his nom de guerre. He fought as a machine-gunner in a unit commanded by Milan Uher, and received the …

More than one million people died in what was called Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau), the camp’s official annihilation center. Both Wetzler (who later took the name Josef Lanik) and Vrba (actually …