Rudolf Vrba (1924–2006)
Autore di I Escaped From Auschwitz
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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 mostra altro world, eventually helping save hundreds of thousands of other Jewish people from being deported to the concentration camp. Vrba immigrated 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. He passed away in 2006. mostra meno
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Rosenberg, Walter (birth name)
- Data di nascita
- 1924-09-11
- Data di morte
- 2006-03-27
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Czechoslovakia (birth)
UK (naturalized 1966)
Canada (naturalized 1972) - Luogo di nascita
- Topoľčany, Czechoslovakia
- Luogo di morte
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Luogo di residenza
- Topoľčany, Czechoslovakia
Auschwitz, Poland
Prague, Czech Republic
UK
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Istruzione
- Czech Technical University in Prague (Dr. Tech. Sc., Chemistry & Biology, 1951)
- Attività lavorative
- university professor
pharmacologist
Holocaust survivor
memoirist
resistance fighter - Relazioni
- Gerta Vrbová (wife)
- Organizzazioni
- University of British Columbia
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Czechoslovak Medal of Bravery [1945]
Czechoslovak Academy of Science - Breve biografia
- Rudolf Vrba was born Walter Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Topolcany, Czechoslovakia. After Nazi Germany invaded his country in World War II when he was 15 years old, he worked as a laborer until being arrested and deported in 1942. He was sent first to the Maidanek concentration camp and then to Auschwitz. In 1944, he made a harrowing escape from the latter camp and managed to reach northern Slovakia. There he worked with another escapee to write an eyewitness report on Auschwitz and the exact mechanics of Nazi mass murder, including diagrams of gas chambers and crematoria. The document, known as the Auschwitz Protocol, was sent to the British and USA governments and the International Red Cross, and was later used as evidence in the Nuremburg trials. He took the nom de guerre Rudolf Vrba after joining the Resistance and later made the change legal. After the war, he earned a doctoral degree from the Czech Technical University in Prague. He become a distinguished medical researcher in Israel, England, the USA and Canada and a professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia. In 1963, he published his autobiography, I Escaped from Auschwitz (also known as Escape from Auschwitz: I Cannot Forgive). His influence as a witness became even greater after he appeared in the 1985 documentary film "Shoah," directed by Claude Lanzmann.
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