Rudolf Vrba

I Escaped from Auschwitz

The Shocking True Story of the World War II Hero Who Escaped the Nazis and Helped Save Over 200,000 Jews
Herausgeber: Vrba, Robin; Zimring, Nikola

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Produktbeschreibung

The Stunning and Emotional Autobiography of an Auschwitz Survivor

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Racehorse
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 153mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781631584718
• ISBN-10: 1631584715
• Artikelnr.: 55806498

Autorenporträt

Rudolf Vrba was born in Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) in 1924. As a teenager, he was deported to Auschwitz. He was interned there from April 1942 to June 1944, when he and fellow prisoner Alfred Wetzler escaped. He and Wetzler’s report of the atrocities of Auschwitz alerted authorities across the world, eventually helping save hundreds of thousands of other Jewish people from being deported to the concentration camp. Vrba defected to Israel in 1958 and worked at the Weizmann Research Institute until in 1960 when he moved to England and published his story in a series of articles in the Daily Herald, following the arrest of Adolf Eichmann. He eventually published his full memoir in 1963 as I Cannot Forgive. In 1967, Vrba moved to Canada and passed away in Vancouver in 2006.