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Alfréd Israel Wetzler (10 May 1918 [1] – 8 February 1988), who wrote under the alias Jozef Lánik, was a Slovak Jewish writer. He is known for escaping from Auschwitz concentration camp and co-writing the Vrba-Wetzler Report , which helped halt the deportation of Jews from Hungary, saving up to 200,000 lives.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
The New York Times describes the gas chambers and said that Jews were being executed. 6 June; Allied invasion of Normandy, France. mid June; The Vrba–Wetzler report reaches the British and US governments. 15 June; The BBC World Service reports that 4,000 Jews from Theresienstadt were killed in gas chambers at Auschwitz during March 1944 ...
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery [1] is a Roman Catholic cemetery in Rochester, New York. Its original parcel was purchased in 1871 under Rochester’s first bishop, the Most Reverend Bernard J. McQuaid. The cemetery’s charter was granted by the State of New York in 1872 and a Board of Trustees was formed with Bishop McQuaid serving as its chairman.
Lt. Jeffery Pursel of the Rochester Police Department said that emergency responders were called a residence on Dr. Samuel McCree Way, near Epworth Street, around 3:30 a.m. and found a 55-year-old ...
The New York Times describes the gas chambers and said that Jews were being executed. 6 June; Allied invasion of Normandy, France. mid June; The Vrba–Wetzler report reaches the British and US governments. 15 June; The BBC World Service reports that 4,000 Jews from Theresienstadt were killed in gas chambers at Auschwitz during March 1944 ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) – Officers with the Rochester Police Department say a man in his 20s has died after being stabbed overnight Sunday. Officers say the stabbing happened at E.L. Tower on ...
Rochester police are investigating the death of a 1-year-old girl at a city apartment complex this week. Emergency responders were called to the Chatham Gardens apartment complex - on Kelly Street ...