https://padlet.com/siskashlynn491/5wkpyy6m1skndvhh Resisters project en-us 2022-04-20 01:13:19 UTC 2025-10-07 09:35:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f929.png siskashlynn491 https://padlet.com/siskashlynn491/5wkpyy6m1skndvhh/wish/2149571532 Born in Czechoslovakia on September 11, 1924. At 15, Vrba was excluded from the high school of Bratislava under the Numbreg anti-Jewish laws. Not long after, he was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.]]> 2022-04-20 01:55:25 UTC https://padlet.com/siskashlynn491/5wkpyy6m1skndvhh/wish/2149571532 siskashlynn491 https://padlet.com/siskashlynn491/5wkpyy6m1skndvhh/wish/2149583536 Of the laws, he ripped the yellow Star Of David off his clothes and left his home in a taxi, heading for Britain and Hungary. He and his friend, Alfred Weltzer, escaped Auschwitz II at 20:33 on April 10, 1944, and began to walk South to Slovakia, 80 miles away.]]> 2022-04-20 02:05:37 UTC https://padlet.com/siskashlynn491/5wkpyy6m1skndvhh/wish/2149583536 siskashlynn491 https://padlet.com/siskashlynn491/5wkpyy6m1skndvhh/wish/2149605875 Escaped from Auschwitz-Birkenau so he could warn Hungarian Jews of their imminent extermination, when he learned of the plans that the Germans had for them. ]]> 2022-04-20 02:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/siskashlynn491/5wkpyy6m1skndvhh/wish/2149605875 siskashlynn491 https://padlet.com/siskashlynn491/5wkpyy6m1skndvhh/wish/2149608628 “It was particularly urgent because I knew that all was prepared for the murder of a million Jews from Hungary. And because it was close to Slovakia, I thought it would be possible to give the warning,”]]> 2022-04-20 02:24:41 UTC https://padlet.com/siskashlynn491/5wkpyy6m1skndvhh/wish/2149608628 siskashlynn491 https://padlet.com/siskashlynn491/5wkpyy6m1skndvhh/wish/2149620054 https://youtu.be/PJT-lu2h404]]> 2022-04-20 02:33:32 UTC https://padlet.com/siskashlynn491/5wkpyy6m1skndvhh/wish/2149620054 siskashlynn491 https://padlet.com/siskashlynn491/5wkpyy6m1skndvhh/wish/2149624240 2022-04-20 02:36:55 UTC https://padlet.com/siskashlynn491/5wkpyy6m1skndvhh/wish/2149624240 siskashlynn491 https://padlet.com/siskashlynn491/5wkpyy6m1skndvhh/wish/2149635343 437,000 Jews didn’t get reached, and were murdered n gas chambers, but Vrba did make it to Switzerland, where it was published in the press. By June 1944 British and American media were reporting the reality of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. World leaders made direct reports to the Hungarian Government to stop the deportation of Jews. The deportations were halted on 9 July. This infuriated Hitler.]]> 2022-04-20 02:46:08 UTC https://padlet.com/siskashlynn491/5wkpyy6m1skndvhh/wish/2149635343 siskashlynn491 https://padlet.com/siskashlynn491/5wkpyy6m1skndvhh/wish/2149640330 2022-04-20 02:50:22 UTC https://padlet.com/siskashlynn491/5wkpyy6m1skndvhh/wish/2149640330