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I Escaped From Auschwitz
by Rudolf Vrba
In
1944, twenty-year-old Rudolf Vrba, along
with Alfred Wetzler escaped Auschwitz
and dictated the Vrba-Wetzler Report,
or Auschwitz Protocols, to the Bratislava
Jewish Council. The report was then smuggled
to Switzerland and eventually reached
the U.S. State Department, the Vatican,
and the British embassy in Bern. It was
also broadcast on the BBC. As the protocols
reached an increasingly large audience,
the true purpose of Auschwitz as a death
camp became clear to the world.
The report, considered by many to be one
of the most important documents of the
twentieth century, estimated that nearly
two million Jews had already been killed.
It warned the world that the Germans were
preparing to murder 3,000 Czech Jews who
had been brought from Theresienstadt six
months earlier and nearly 800,000 Hungarian
Jews.
Originally
published in 1964 by Grove Press, this
astonishing book is now available with
a new introduction by the author and includes
the full text of the Auschwitz Protocols
and other source material.
Dr.
Rudolf Vrba, lives in Vancouver, British
Columbia where he is Professor Emeritus
of Pharmacology at the University of British
Columbia. He has testified as an expert
witness at many trials of Nazis and lectures
frequently on the Holocaust throughout
North America.
ISBN: 1-56980-232-7
TITLE: I Escaped From Auschwitz
AUTHOR: Vrba, Rudolf
BINDING: PB
PAGES: 400
LISTPRICE: 19.95
PUBDATE: 2002 04/15
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