"Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sun., April 2, 2006 News Obits
Rudolph Vrba, Sept. 11, 1924-March 27, 2006
Auschwitz escapee warned the world.
By Masrke Hume
When Rudolph Vrba fled Auschwitz in the spring of 1944...
his life ended quietly Mon. in Vancouver, British Columbia...age 82...
They told the world about Auschwitz.
Mr. Vrba's...with prisoner Alfred Wetzler...suicidial escape bid...to warn Hungarian Jews that they were about to be rounded up by the SS & sent to the gas chambers.
...brought the first eyewitness accounts of Auschwitz-Birkenau, writing a shocking & detailed report about what was taking place in the death camps."
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