Escape from Auschwitz
7th April 1944: Two prisoners outwit the SS in a daring escape so that they can tell the world of the enormity of the crimes being committed
Nazi Germany had occupied its ally Hungary in March. Learning of the imminent arrival of Hungarian Jews for the gas chambers of Auschwitz, two of the more experienced prisoners now made a desperate attempt to warn the outside world. Rudolf "Rudi" Vrba (born Walter Rosenberg, Vrba was the name given to him by the Slovak resistance) and Alfred Wetzler (Fr…
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