Resistance Project (Escapes) by RYAN MILLER

Rudolf Vrba

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Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler were two of the only men to escape from Auschwitz the concentration camp.

Quote

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"The only thing to do is to explain ... that they should not board the trains ..."

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Entrance to Auschwitz

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Map of Auschwitz concentration camp

After the escape

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After escaping from Auschwitz Rudolf Vrba would give a detailed report about what happened and he wrote the autobiography, I Cannot Forgive (1963; published as Factory of Death in 1964).

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Music that was played at Auschwitz concentration camp

Rudolf Vrba's life

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Rudolf Vrba was born on September 11 1924 in Trnava in Slovakia, and died March 27, 2006. And when he was 19 he became the first Jew to escape from Auschwitz concentration camp. After he escaped from Auschwitz he wrote the autobiography "I Cannot Forgive". Also he later became a Biochemist mainly working in England and Canada. After he escaped the Jewish Council found an apartment for Vrba and Wetzler in Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš, Slovakia, where the men kept a copy of the Vrba–Wetzler report, in Slovak, hidden behind a picture of the Virgin Mary. Rudolf Vrba died on 27 March 2006 in Vancouver, Canada at the age of 81.

Rudolf Vrba's impact

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Rudolf’s impact was that he helped Fred Wetzler escape and he warned the world about everything that had happened to him and the truth about Auschwitz concentration camp. After he escaped he 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. Rudolf helped impact the world because he helped tell the truth about Auschwitz

Rudolf Vrba facts

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Vrba's mother was from Zbehy; his maternal grandfather, Bernat Grünfeld, an Orthodox Jew from Nitra, was murdered in the Majdanek concentration camp. Vrba took the name Rudolf Vrba after his escape from Auschwitz. The Rosenbergs owned a steam sawmill in Jaklovce and lived in Trnava. When Rudolf Vrba escaped from Auschwitz he was only 18 years old. He also helped Fred Wetzler escape who would warn the world.

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Image 1 shows the rail road into Auschwitz which is the way that most people would get into the concentration camp.

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Image 2 shows the map of Auschwitz and this is most likely what the map that Rudolf Vrba used to help himself and Fred Wetzler escape.