Rudolf Vrba
Rudolf "Rudi" Vrba (September 11, 1924 – March 27, 2006), was a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of British Columbia in Canada. His birth name was Walter Rosenberg. In April 1944, he escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp. After escaping, he passed information to the Allies who were fighting the Axis Powers during the Second World War. He informed the authorities about the mass murder that was taking place at the camp.
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Vrba at school (front row, fourth left), Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1935–1936
Entrance to Auschwitz I, photograph taken in 14/03/2008 by Ori Lahav.
"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)
German camps in occupied Poland
Gestapo telegram reporting the escape, 8 April 1944
Adolf Eichmann during his trial in Jerusalem, 1961
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